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I am using two operating systems. First I installed Win98 on C: drive and then I installed WinXp on D: Drive.
My question is that I had to reinstall the Win98 after formating my C: drive, then with new installation, there is no option to select to OS, so I am not able to run WinXp. Whenever I boot the system, it starts win98.
Where is that OS selection option?
Is there any way to bring it back?
How can I prevent it to happen again?
Well...Windows 98 and XP share common data on the partition C. In other words, the loader for XP, the bootmanager etc. is placed on the partition C as well. Since you did format the drive, you also deleted these files.
You need to run the XP setup again...selecting the 'Repair' option...
See and edit this file: C:\boot.ini
Be careful to edit this file, it is text file - hidden and system.
Well...that does not help....first of all there is no 'boot.ini' file, and second of all, without the XP loader you will not boot anything at all... :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajay Vijay
Well, my mistake to read OP's post - I did not read that he "formatted" the drive. :blush:
From Where do I need to run setup of winxp, and whether all of my installed programs be remained there in there last position
Well...from the setup CD... :ehh:Quote:
Originally Posted by arshadjehan
i have a similar problem . i installed XP on 2 seperate drives independently ,then set 1 as master and the other slave. but i want to edit the Boot.ini. of the master to add a line to point to the slave drive , so as to be able to boot from there (it is also a primary partition)