Re-sized partitions and lost "C"

[twolfson 0]

I have a dual boot system with 5 partitions;

C = Win98SE, D = swapfile, E = data, F = Win2K, E = temporary storage of

ghost files.

I resized my partitions (using partition magic 5) and lost the ability to

boot to "C" (my win98 OS) but I can still boot to "F" (my W2K OS).

 

Wassuup with that?, Any Idea's?

Terry

[DosFreak 2]

Where did the free space to resize come from?

Is your 98 partition still there? Is it still FAT?

Is your boot.ini pointing to the location of your MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM 98 files?

[twolfson 0]

I made "C" 1 gig. smaller (I still have 1 gig free on "C"), and allocated that gig to "E" and "G".

 

"C" is still fat 32.

 

I don't know the answer to your third question.. this is a copy of my boot.ini file (the default has always been to boot to W2K):

[boot loader]

timeout=20

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /sos

C:\="Microsoft Windows"

 

MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM are all in c:\

[DosFreak 2]

What happens when you choose Windows 98 from the boot menu?

[twolfson 0]

Screen message;

Invalid system disk (or something like that).

I have to wait 25minutes to reboot 'cause I just started downloading SP3.

I'll check in half an hour.

[twolfson 0]

OK, I checked.

The Screen message is;

"Invalid system disk

Replace the disk and press any key"

[vern2 0]

How can you still boot to win2k if you get invalid system disk?

[twolfson 0]

I don't know, It's dual boot.

Only after I choose which system to boot to do I get the error (if I choose the Win98 boot sector).

[twolfson 0]

Alex;

Before you sent your reply I gave up on truing to shrink the C partition.

I resized the partition back to where it was when I started all this and restored C from a ghost boot image.

Everything's working fine now.

 

Thanks,

Terry