Re: Removing a Win98 boot drive
- From: "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:52:47 +1100
"Max C." <maxc246@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know that from the subject this looks like a topic that has been
discussed in this group before, but apparently my situation is a bit
different from previous questions (though I would have thought this
wuold be a common scenario.) Apparently most people use different
partitions of the same drive for dual boot systems. That's all I kept
finding references to.
My PC once only had Windows 98. I purchased a new drive and installed
it as the slave to the Win98 drive. I set up Windows 2000 Pro by
booting with the 2000 install disk and pointed the install to the new
D: drive. So, I thought I had 1 win 98 drive and 1 Win 2000 drive.
Now my original Win 98 drive is failing and I need to remove it. I
copied everything I need over to the Win 2000 (D:) drive. I also made
sure that the basic NT boot files were located on the D: drive (which
they were) and changed the boot.ini file to make sure it was pointing
to the first drive on the controller (since I'd be promoting the slave
D: drive to the master drive.)
The problem is, when I remove the Win 98 drive and make the Win 2000
drive the master, the PC won't boot. I get an error that says there's
no bootable disk present.
What have I missed?
Thanks,
Max.
You missed a few important things:
1. Since Win2000 saw the light of the day on drive D:, it must always
run off drive letter D:. It's now on drive C:!
2. The Windows partition must be a primary partition. Yours might
be a logical partition.
3. The Windows partition must be active. Yours might not be active.
Item 3 is easily fixed in Disk Management. Items 1 and 2 require
advanced tools and methods.
The simplest remedy would be to buy a small hard disk for next
to nothing (500 MBytes will do quite nicely!). Format it under
Win2000, put the three system files on to it, restore boot.ini to its
former condition and enjoy the result.
If you ever intend to get back into multi-booting, use a proper boot
manager that keeps the various OSs completely separate and
independent from each other. XOSL is such a boot manager and
it's free!
.
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