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XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems
I installed 98SE on C: and XP on D: when I was happy with XP I then installed XP directly (from Boot CD) which NTFS formatted the C: and when XP loaded I then reformatted D: from inside XP. I'm now left with a boot loader offering XP or XP!? Several ways to fix that. !IF! you set to "Classic Start Menu",

XP Boot disk Creation
Any Win98 installation writes a 98 boot record at the beginning of the partition, and at boot time it's that boot record that tells the computer to load io.sys and go from there. An XP installation, even installed to drive D:, adds the XP boot files to C: and overwrites the 98 boot record with an XP boot record,

Dual boot win 2k and xp pro
I had boot magic running and tripple booting in 98, linux, and ME but when I installed XP boot magic wouldn't give me a chocie to boot to XP, only the NTFS partition and that not booable cuz the boot files are on the 98 partition. I hope this makes sense. Anyway is there a way to use boot magic again or change the

Question on dual boot of Win98 on a Win XP system
I had an IDE disk from my old computer with data (not an XP boot disk) installed in the machine when I did the XP install. The terminology here is counter-intuitive. :>( MS didn't start the terminology, but they've stuck with it. As so many writers have pointed out, "We BOOT from the SYSTEM partition and keep our

Removed Dual Boot, 98/XP and want to recover C: Disk Space
If you can, boot from the Win2000 CD and use the installation utility to make a new partition and direct Win2000 to install in the new partition. You may have to repair your XP installation afterward if the Win2000 install overwrites the original XP boot sector. I hate those restore CDs.

W98 configmg error on W98/xp pro dual boot machine
Ghislain Poirier g...@sympatico.ca microsoft public windowsxp beta perform-maintain microsoft public windowsxp general microsoft public windowsxp beta basics alt os windows-xp i remember boot/fix but i had this problem with beta 2 xp and i solve this by retry install after the install reboot for the first time

XP will not boot without floppy boot disk
Paul - xxx notcheckede...@hotmail.com 24hoursupport helpdesk urslow wrote: Hi, What I'd like to do is make XP so I have the option at boot up selecting how I want windows to boot. I'd like to have the option of the absolute minimal things running (for gaming), and 2: normally. And how I would go about setting this

9700 Pro XP boot problems
(My IT guys get the jibbies when they see the dual-boot anyhow). I can't seem to find any type of uninstall. I tired to boot from the CD, etc.. but no uninstall option. I actually can't get into the XP boot since it wants me to register, it would have been nice to provide an uninstall at that point.

Hard drive added, drive letter assignments changed, XP won't boot
Partition Magic will let you do it all in one step (copy and resize) but for some reason it fouls up the Windows XP boot process. Ghost will successfully clone the disk but won't resize it. Hence the two step process. But something good has come from this discussion -- I learned a lot more about the boot process,

XP boot problems: Repeated 'cos I'm getting desperate for help!
5 hda7 102MB (ext3) 6 hda9 510MB (linux-swap) I'm not clear what entry 4 means -- is it Linux or XP? (If it actually contains XP but has partition type Linux this might well cause confusion.) This information was provided by the Redhat Hardware Browser. Now that I've installed linux I can no longer boot to XP or 98

XP dual boot reconfiguration
SYS, I believe), and copied the old copies in and now my system will boot into XP dual boot and I can run ME. But I can't figure out how to get BootMagic to recognize that ME is there and for it to manage that boot as well. Bill Rubin wrote: I had XP and ME running with XP's dual boot capability (ie,

Want to use XP's boot loader
I'm guessing your saying install Mandrake, than from XP add lilo -u to XP's boot loader and it will cause XP boot loader to take over? No, I did not say that. You install XP last and it will wipe out the lilo boot loader in the mbr. You would then be back asking how to boot linux. :( I'll search using the info u

Windows XP boot time...
So you're stating below once I edit boot.ini on C and create a correct bootsect.dos on CI will be able to either boot XP on C (NTFS) or Win98SE on D (FAT32). Yes. I'd concentrate on making the XP boot again first, then just edit the boot.ini Would the following boot.ini be correct on C:\?

Win98/XP No Floppy Drive Can't Boot to 98
Jeff Richards JRicha...@msn.com.au microsoft public win98 setup It may not be the boot manager as such, but only people who are familiar with the XP boot manager and how it works would know how you can use it to get access to a damaged boot record in the W98 partition. For a W98 system the solution would be to boot

Can I make XP boot one of 2 ways?
There isn't really much difference between 2K and XP. Might should have left ME for some thing like maybe games. I have never tried to run two 2K compatiable OS together, but should work just fine. The only trouble would be is which Boot Loader would it use. I do know on a dual boot with 98 and 2K same as U had

Can I set up dual boot this way
Ctrl-Alt-Delete got me out of that and I used the XP recovery console to fix my MBR and restored the machine so I could boot XP. I can boot into linux using my dos cd and loadlin but would like to boot into it without having to do this. Oh and I did upgrade my bios but the problem persists.

XP Boot Error
I've just installed Redhat Linux 7.2 on my system, and I'd like to get it to dual boot with Windows XP. My hard disk partitions are set up as follows: Primary Partition 12GB NTFS (Windows XP boot) Extended Partition 5.9GB FAT32 (used for general data storage) 3.5GB Ext2 (Linux is installed here) How can I get this

Can I set up dual boot this way
Brian A. GoneFishn@aFarAwayLake microsoft public win98 gen_discussion  to Bootdisk.com and get a XP boot disk or see if you can copy the proper files over while in DOS to a blank formatted floppy. The boot disk should contain: Should be found in the root C:. Boot.ini NTLDR Ntdetect.com bootsect.dos

Dual-boot of 98 & XP - problem with drive assignments...
But one of those links actually pointed me to a concept that I tried: bootcfg /rebuild ...which isn'ta bootcfg option unless you're in the XP recovery console, where it searches through all drives looking for operating systems and makes appropriate mods to boot.ini So I booted from CD, and tried that.

XP 98 Dual Boot
If you've already installed a lot of software in XP and don't want to reinstall, you can probably fix things up by copying some XP boot files to the Me drive, switching the drives back around, fiddling with boot.ini a bit, and then running the XP Repair process from the CD. Let me know if you want details on that.