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MBR Record GONE for multibooting
Name: jinhamasaki Date: June 25, 2003 at 14:29:03 Pacific OS: Windows XP Prof CPU/Ram: PII 400 384 MB
Comment:
Help! I installed windows XP on a friend's computer, however, she only has Chinese Windows 98. Thus, I installed Windows XP as a new installation. I didn't know I had to partition the drive to have two partitions to do multiboot. Instead, I installed Windows XP at a different folder. Now, when I load, all I get is Windows XP. I went to C:\ and I still see everything that was on Windows 98, including the WINDOWS folder and all the programs. The problem is, I can't have it to boot to 98 now :(. Any suggestions?
Name: guru Date: June 25, 2003 at 14:39:02 Pacific
Reply:
You made it. The most bad thing to do with xp and 98. Now you have to install 98 again, so you can boot it (it makes itself a boot area) and then install xp on a diferent partition
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Response Number 2
Name: darkfriend Date: June 26, 2003 at 12:38:15 Pacific
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Try "bootcfg /scan" in the XP recovery console (boot from CD). Maybe...just maybe it will see the 98 OS.
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Response Number 3
Name: jinhamasaki Date: June 28, 2003 at 16:27:24 Pacific
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bump What if I use partition magic and partition the Windows XP portion?
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