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by yohayon

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I HAVE WIN95 ON MY C: DRIVE & WINDOWS NT ON MY D: DRIVE (I PARTITIONED MY HD). WHEN I BOOT UP I GET THE NORMAL MENU OF BOOTING TO PREVIOUS OPERATING SYSTEM (WIN95) OR WINDOWS NT. IF I PRESS WIN NT IT BOOTS UP FINE TO NT. IF I SELECT WIN95 IT IMMEDIETELY DISPLAYS "ERR" ON THE TOP LEFT HAND CORNER OF THE SCREEN. SO I PRESSED ESCAPE OR RETURN & IT BRINGS ME BACK TO THE BOOT UP MENU. WHAT DO I DO???? HELP ME!!!!

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by jeffliu

1, Copy boot.ini, Ntdetect.com, NTldr.com to a floppy, you will use to boot up into NT;
2, Run Fdisk /mbr see if fix your problem.

by frobo

Hi,

when you want to boot Dos under NT, you need the previous Bootrecord. This Record named Dosboot.sec, this is started if you select the previous OS. You get the Error when the file is deleted or missing.

You can fix it like in Anwser 1, but after it you had to boot NT from Floppy until you repair the NT boot record.

Frobo

by ian mclaws

Not exactly. The file post two is referring to is actually called "bootsec.dos" and is found in the active primary root. When you load NT, the setup process re-configures the boot sector of your drive to look for NTLDR when booting your system. NTLDR then calls NTDETECT and BOOT.INI, during the NT boot. If you already had an o\s loaded, such as DOS or Win 95-98-ME, the NT setup routine saves your bootsector (with its boot program that calls MSDOD.sys, IO.sys and command.com, to a file called bootsec.dos, which is called when you select your previous o\s from the NT boot menu. To restore the bootsec.dos file is a pain; you must boot with a Win 95 or 98 boot disk and re-run the 95,98 setup to restore the bootsector, then use an NT boot disk to restore the NT boot sector and re-do the bootsec.dos file. A tip: if you restart the NT system with a boot disk after reinstalling Win 9x, then run winnt /ox /b from your source files, NT restores the boot sector without running setup any further.

Good luck,

Ian

by ian mclaws

TRY THIS FIRST: If you have any other systems with the same setup, you can simply copy the bootsec.dos file to a diskette, then put it back into your active primary root as long as the twqo systems are identical in drive configuration. Or you can always restore a backup, if one exists. It will have the lost file.

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