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have win xp and 2000 on seperate drives , want to install win 98 but keep both xp/2000. ihave the room and a spare fat 32 part for 98 but need to know how to fix the mbr after adding win 98. do i need to run some kind of repair on both win xp and 2000 ? i dont want to have to go from scratch install just want to add 98 and keep both other os. just need to know how to fix the mbr after win 98 thrashes them after the install. thanks a million. ps not many people thank you guys enough for your super work here. add my thanks to the ones that do !!
boot from the winxp. Go to the repair console.THat will dump you into the command prompt. the cammand you wanna use is mbrfix.exe or something like that. or type in "?" and it will give u a list of commands to repair your system.
Summary: sounds like you upgraded not dual booted. usually works like this if 98 on 1 HD("C") partition drive into 2 install 98 into "C" partition from within 98 install XP into other partition this sets up t...
Summary: boot with ME bootdisk, at A> prompt type sys C: which will erase dual boot MBR again next boot with 98 floppy and at A> prompt type format C: then press enter once your C drive is formated , ...
Summary: Hi everyone, I had the dual boot of win xp and win server 2003 without any problems. But when i re-installed win xp in the partition C, it overwrote the MBR so i can only boot with win xp but not win ...
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