Had Win98 installed on C:\, added another hard drive and installed winxp in the first partition of the new hard drive or partition L:.
Booted into winxp and all was welll.
Later booted into win98 and several things were out of kilter i.e., the Display would only work with resolution 640x?. So without thinking a lot about it, I copied my Ghost image of C: back to C:\.
This of course overlayed the pertinent data placed in C by winxp. Then I could not reboot to win98 because the bootsec.dos file was gone and the boot.ini file was wrong. I corrected the boot.ini (added windows 98 back).
This happened several days ago and as I recall, I formatted L: and reinstalled winxp. It restored the Ntdect.com and ntldr files to C: but not the bootsec.dos, so I still could not boot into win98.
I read on h**p://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net that he had a file called bootsect.zip. He said it it would cause the debug.exe to generate the bootsect.dos. The debug.exe was to be included on the win98 boot disk along with his files. Unzipped the bootsect.zip had bootsect.bat and readsect.scr.
I followed the instructions and it did generate a bootsect.dos file but win98 still would not boot.
So I am back to square one. Do you think my best option is to reinstall winxp with the Repair function as shown on w*w.webtree.caor is there an easier way to accomplish this.
Your input will be appreciated.
Toots
Booted into winxp and all was welll.
Later booted into win98 and several things were out of kilter i.e., the Display would only work with resolution 640x?. So without thinking a lot about it, I copied my Ghost image of C: back to C:\.
This of course overlayed the pertinent data placed in C by winxp. Then I could not reboot to win98 because the bootsec.dos file was gone and the boot.ini file was wrong. I corrected the boot.ini (added windows 98 back).
This happened several days ago and as I recall, I formatted L: and reinstalled winxp. It restored the Ntdect.com and ntldr files to C: but not the bootsec.dos, so I still could not boot into win98.
I read on h**p://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net that he had a file called bootsect.zip. He said it it would cause the debug.exe to generate the bootsect.dos. The debug.exe was to be included on the win98 boot disk along with his files. Unzipped the bootsect.zip had bootsect.bat and readsect.scr.
I followed the instructions and it did generate a bootsect.dos file but win98 still would not boot.
So I am back to square one. Do you think my best option is to reinstall winxp with the Repair function as shown on w*w.webtree.caor is there an easier way to accomplish this.
Your input will be appreciated.
Toots