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I'm dual booting WinXP Pro & Win98 SE and can't get a boot up option screen to appear at boot up so it just boots straight into 98 all the time.
So with the WinXp disk i booted into the recovery console, i typed in the FIXBOOT command and i got
"The target partition is C:.
Are you sure you want to write a new bootsector to the partition C: ?"
but my XP installation is on E: and my 98 installation is on C: is this still correct?
Depends which is the boot drive. If it is C:, and C: is most likely, then yes it is correct.
If C: is the boot drive then you will also need to ensure that you have boot.ini, NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM in the root folder of drive C:. These files are essential for booting Windows 2000 and need to be on the boot drive, not the system drive which is Drive E: as far as Windows 2000 concerned.
If you have re-installed Windows 98 recently then that will be caused the failure of dual boot in the first place
Stuart
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Stuart has been drinking maybe? He meant WinXP instead of Win2K although the same is true for Win2K.
Since Win98 is on C: and it currently only boots to C: then C: is the boot drive.
Do follow Stuart's valuable information.
Regards,
Bryan
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whoops! It should have been WinXP. Got this fixation on Win2000.
Must be the weather, it's getting pretty warm hear.
Stuart
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Naw. It's a occupational hazard. I find they all blend together after a long day :-)
Except for a few enhancements XP is 2000, so who cares about symantecs.Just so you know, when Microsoft says boot sector they are not talking the mbr. They are talking partition information that says this OS on this partition is bootable.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspxTo correct a Win98 overwrite of the W2K/XP mbr you need to run the FIXMBR utility.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspxIt's the mbr that calls either io.sys/msdos.sys or ntldr/ntdetect and boot.ini [nt boot menu]
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Hi wanderer,
"who cares about symantecs."
Does this qualify as a Freudian slip?
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Boot sector snoot sector.No matter what you call it, it lives in the first 512 bytes.
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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I used to work for Symantec M2. Glad you could see the humor :-)
Point here is MS is now talking TWO boot records. One, the mbr that you refer to AND one for the OS partition. Of course without the first you don't go anywhere :-)
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