Re: Add Win98SE to Win2K-Win ME dual boot sys?

From: Walter Donavan (invalid_at_nowhere.not)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:37:24 -0400

Good morning, Dave.

Here are the boot results and errors.

Method OS Choice Result
-------- --------------------- -----------------------------------
-------
NT Boot Win2K Success
Normal Win2K Success

NT Boot 98 SE "Error accessing boot sector file"
Normal 98 SE "Error accessing boot sector file"

NT Boot Recovery Console "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file" *
Normal Recovery Console Success

NT Boot Default (Win 2K) "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file" *
Normal Default (Win 2K) "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file" *

* It was looking for the copy in <Win2K root>\System32\ntoskrnl.exe. I also
found two other copies in backup folders.

I double clicked on all three of them. This was an attempt to see if the
files were corrupt. They all gave the same error message: "Access to the
specified device, path, or file is denied." They were all the same size
(1,719,056). This tells me that they are all the same and that they all
work. I therefore conclude that ntoskrnl.exe is not defective or missing and
that there is some other error.

The contents of the boot.ini file are as follows.

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=16
Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WIN2000="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (legacy programs)"
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons

I cannot get to Win98 SE, although it is there and it worked fine until I
did the fixboot. At this point, I do not know what to do next.

Thank you for any more help you or others can give me.

Walter Donavan 

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