Hi all. I support several multi-boot computers in a learning environment, and I’m expecting to have to repair Win2k boot sectors, after 31 portable harddisks, install win98 (remove the disk after installation and the boot sector on permanent drive needs fixed.)
So while it can be done with the recovery disk, after sys’ing the FAT 16 partition with a Dos 6.0 boot disk.. my question is, since I have an NT boot disk which allows me to access the NT install… isn’t there a way to repair the boot partition, from within NT???
I practised today, installing Win98 on a portable drive, then removed the portable drive from it’s slot (portable drive connects to the IDE#0 controller and the permanent drives are installed to the IDE#1 controller, both having first partitions as “active”. So once you’ve done your install to the portable, after removing the drive, the permanent drive no longer boots (disk error)…
I sys’ed it with Dos 6 (Dos 6 is installed on C, as will another copy ofWin98) and Win2k will be installed on other partitions within on that interior drive. I then loaded the recovery console and did fixboot c:.
It all worked fine *but*.. as I do have boot disks for the current (only 1 copy of WinNT pro is installed so far – for a couple weeks), can’t I fix that boot sector on the C drive from within 2K?…. I would naturally like to avoid loading recovery console, since booting “in” is so quick, in comparison.
Or.. are there other solutions I should consider?
