Summary: mmm... How dun you get yourself into this one...? Not sure if this will work - not having tried it - but: Boot as now; then copy the boot-files (on c:...
Summary: It is that easy. Just put in your Win2K CD and reboot. If you run setup from within XP you will get an error as you have described. When you reboot yo...
Summary: hi guys! (and gals) i have an xp pro sp2 machine 28 gb hard disk; while installing i wanted to have a 2gb C: (for dos 6.22) partition and 10 gb ntfs (...
Summary: shouldn't save the C: drive boot.ini if Im formating C? After formating C: and doing a fresh intall of XP on the C: again. Could I simply go to sys...
Summary: if you do what seat6 says, you won't be booting from that drive anymore. Windows uses the primary partition for boot info. If you want to have some ...
Summary: I have a dula boot system (ME one 1 partition, XP on second) I have formatted my C: and reinstall ME, now my system booting direct with ME, How can re...
Summary: I am just tinkering with OS's here, but I have 98,2000, and XP tripple booted right now. 98 is installed on C. What I would like to do is replace the ...
Summary: You can just install it as the OS on your non-Xp drive, yes. However, I think you may have to format the drive as FAT16 as only DOS 7 and above suppor...
Summary: First time for posting here, so I hope I do this right. Two weeks ago, all on the same day, I installed and ran AVG's free virus checker, ran an MS up...
Summary: my windows xp cannot boot since this morning.It says to me that the file c_1252.nls is corrupted or missing.I have not installed or modify anything s...
Summary: what other OS? I use linux/XP, and added a line such as this to the C:\boot.ini C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux", little more complicated to get linux to boot ...
Summary: Can anybody offer me a small bit of advice. I am trying to dual boot W2K and XP PRO. I have already got XP PRO running and have made a partition for i...
Summary: I think it installed the boot files for 98 on your HD with XP on it so now it tries to start 98. To dual boot I think you have to install the older o...
Summary: I have boot vis, but when i defrag using norton 2002 the boot times go up. I assume this is because the boot files are moved away from the front. Ther...
Summary: Yes, but 98 has to be on the C drive to boot. Partition your drive and install 98 on the C drive, then you will have to boot to the XP CDROM and do a ...
Summary: Hello, I'd like to know where XP keeps the files we download from the Windows Update service. I'm asking this because, I don't want to re-download the...
Summary: this is a follow up to: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/75681.html I have tried "Fixboot", which said it repaired the boot sector wh...
Summary: Reinstalling Windows XP shouldn't be a problem as it will make sure that the multiboot is left intact during setup. If the installation went wrong Me ...
Summary: Im dualing with win98/XP, but now the pc autostarts win98. The boot files - Boot.ini, NTLDR, NTDETECT, BOOTSECT.DOS - hasnt changed dates. What might ...
Summary: The MBR boot code does not matter if it is from 98 "fdisk /mbr",ME,w2k or XP "fixboot", any will work with each other. It can also be from a third par...
Summary: Anybody who has gotten the Xp floppy boot sector want to put it up on homestead, tripod, yahoo briefcase, ect. I and many others would apprieciate it...
Summary: my windows xp home just crashed. when i turn on the computer, "boot failure. Please insert boot disk in A:". i already download windows xp home boot d...
Summary: Hi everyone, nice forum. I bet i have found more answers that worked from a simple Google search referencing this forum then any other LoL. My problem...
Summary: hi, i am having some problems booting up xp. i have a dual boot of win 98 and win xp, 98 boots fine, but when i try xp, i get a menu asking which devi...
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