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Dual Boot XP

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Cliff Stephens - 30 Sep 2005 06:35 GMT
Can anyone help me with Windows XP dual boot problem?

Started with PC with MS Windows 98SE on C drive

Installed new additional HDD and installed Windows XP Proff SP2. Did this by
physically disconnecting C HDD and installed on new HDD. Since C
disconnected the system could not find 98SE so XP is on HDD J

C is FAT 32. J is NTFS (D is another partition of C HDD; E, F etc are  SCSI
HDDs)

XP is fine

I can boot to 98 SE by changing BIOS to boot from second HDD

Trying to set up Boot.ini to easily boot to 98SE

Have read everything on internet and MS KB but cannot get 98SE to boot from
Boot.ini

Have set up details of both HDD sectors in Boot.ini and tried to point to
98SE by C:\ WINDOWS or just C:\ but to no avail. Recovery console does not
find 98SE.

When 98SE is selected in Boot.ini selection screen at startup system just
hangs

Pressing F8 gives obscure message about missing Hal.dll

BOOT.INI is-

[boot loader]

timeout=10

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\C:\="Windows 98SE" /Win95

C HDD is FAT 32

J HDD is NTFS
Pegasus (MVP) - 30 Sep 2005 07:16 GMT
> Can anyone help me with Windows XP dual boot problem?
>
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> J HDD is NTFS

You can restore the Win98 boot capability like so:
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com).
- Make sure that drive C: is your FAT32 partition.
- Run this command:
bootpart  Win95  c:\Win98.sys  "Windows 98"

The command will create the boot sector file c:\Win98.sys. It will
also generate a new entry "Windows 98" in boot.ini. You can get
it from here: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
 
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