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by yasasvi

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Hi,
I work on a public pc(config: intel 815 mother board,P-III 800,128 Mb sdram, 20 GB Hard disk with 3 partitions.) on which win 98 was installed along with the drivers for printers,scanner and cd writer.Some body in our lab,installed win 2k over it (in the other partition.Now every file is on D: and whatever is on c: is not working.So, what I formatted c:\ since all the files are on D:\. Then the system started looking for ntldr on c. Since it is not there,it stopped booting.All my files areon D. How can I make it boot from d:\.By the way, where exactly ntldr will be.I know for nt, it will be in root directory c.Since, win2k is installed on D, I thought it can boot from D rather than from c:.Now what I have to do to boot win2k as usual? Can i copy ntldr from some other win2k comp and run it?If I can,then How can I copy it from the other win2k comps

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by parbo

The system is still looking for ntldr since you have W2K on it. I'm not sure what you did and how but for some reason the system i s still trying to boot from drive D:. what i would do 1st to verify this is disconnect drive D: and use only C: It should boot your system tight back iin W98 if it is loaded.
If you're still seeing the same problem the C drive is not formatted correctly. You should be able to remove the leftovers of W2K like boot.ini and ntdetect. The from a W98 boot disk run the command sys c: and that should restore your w98 boot files on the C drive.
If you want to use the ntldr just copy it from another W2k system to a floppy and copy it to the system in question. You would have to boot from a bootdisk to do so. Copy thefile to the C: drive You would also need the ntdetect and boot.ini for this to work.
Good luck.
feel free to email if you still have questions

by col1n

If you have a similar machine Copy the ntldr program onto a floppy make sure it is the same type of machine with similar settings

This is a quick workaround
Other than this you may need to create the rescue disks from the Master CD

Search on technet Cd for NTLDR plenty here to go at

by oskiller

It will look for the files on the C: drive. It doesn't matter if you install the OS on drive Z, systems will generally look to the primary partion of the first harddrive to boot. The OS will install the basic files there (ntldr etc) and then move tosystem area to handle the rest of the boot sequence.

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