damn it, boot.ini file screwed, win98 boots, cant get winxp

[HELLBRINGER 0]

i had winxp installed, and then installed win98... i've done this before and it worked fine. but this time for some reason it does not give me a boot option screen... i'm not sure what happened. i know winxp is still on there and it probably work fine. i just need to fix the boot.ini file. but i dont know how to do it.

 

can someone help me out here?

 

winxp = c:\windows

win98 = c:\win98

 

fat32 partition, disk 0.

 

i can supply to the boot.ini file if needed.

[HELLBRINGER 0]

never mind, i managed to get the boot menu back starting a new winxp install, then took it out. works fine now...

 

admin: how come i cant delete my own thread? can that feature be enabled? otherwise, can you delete this thread... thx

[Swany 0]

You have both Win98 and WinXP on the same partition???

That's not a good idea. Both OS's will use the \Program Files\ directory.

[Vermyn 0]

Win98 and WinXP on the same partition is an immensely bad, bad idea.

 

Also, you should always install 2000 or XP *last*. All Microsoft OS's will modify the boot sector of your hard disk. Since you installed Windows 98 last, Win98 wrote its boot sector down and killed WinXP's ability to multi-boot other OS's.

 

--Alexander