Two OS Problem

[arshadjehan]

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?

[Andreas Masur]

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...

[Ajay Vijay]

See and edit this file: C:\boot.ini
Be careful to edit this file, it is text file - hidden and system.

[Andreas Masur]

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...

[Ajay Vijay]

Well, my mistake to read OP's post - I did not read that he "formatted" the drive.

[arshadjehan]

From Where do I need to run setup of winxp, and whether all of my installed programs be remained there in there last position

[Andreas Masur]

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...

[gt_hadjor]

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)