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Access Win2k partition from Win98

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I have recently formatted and reloaded my win98 on my primary partition. After that i do not see my dual boot up screen option with my Win2k pro. Is there any way i can get back to my win2kpro on a ntfs partition. I did not have the ERD disk.

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by bohicam1

If you formatted your C:\ drive, chances are you wiped out your boot.ini file which told your puter where to find the boot files. You will have to reinstall your win2k now as well unless you take a copy of a boot.ini from another machine and customize it to your particular settings.
Good luck!

Mike

by grondin_e

The best thing for you to do is just Fdisk and restart everything. Load Win98 first of course and then 2k. You will not be able to go cross platform as easy as you might want to if you have the 2k platform on the NT filing system..
so my suggestion.. ditch 98 there is no need for it unless you just cant find that one driver...
if you do not see the boot option screen then it's not duel boot.. unless someone went and changed the timing on how long you have to select the operating system and which one is first on the food chain... i had that happen to me and i am a network administrator over windows 2000... Not fun to fix. Easy but not fun.. Lock your screen!!

anyway good luck with that

by jsloan

Boot to your W2K disk. It has many repair options you can use. You can let it try and repair itself, or go to console mode which lets you do things like repair the master boot record. I would suggest at least trying to fix it instead of starting over.

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