Dual Boot Blues..

[TurboSmoke]

i have 3 partitions on my hard drive and i installed windows2000 pro on my first partition and win98 on my second and and left the third for data and everything is great...at start up i was asked which operating system i want to use and fired it up....

6 months later w2k got corrupted so i reformatted and reinstalled it, fine....however at startup i am no longer asked which os i want to boot up...it defaults to wk2...

its a laptop and i use w2k at work to maintain network intergrity and w98 at home so its important that i get it fixed.... i know theres a little batch or text file somewhere that needs edited but which one?

all partitions are fat32...

cheers TS

 

[Flerbizky]

You need to edit boot.ini in c:\ It's a hidden system file, but what you need to do to it.. NO idea... Haven't had a dual boot system for years...

 

[TurboSmoke]

cheers buddy....

seems that the line containing win98 had been removed by setup....i just edited the boot.ini file from the command line and were back in business...

cheerz
TS

 

[Flerbizky]

Right on man 👍

 

[rjensen11]

I'm guessing your boot loader was on your Win2k partition, and that when you reformatted it, you also erased the boot loader and config files.