Re: Win 2000 Pro Dual Boot
From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 07/20/04
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:31:47 -0600
The boot sector for both OS's must reside on the System partition C:\ (first
primary active partition) Below assumes that Windows 2000 is installed on
the first primary active partition C:\ and that the partition is formatted
fat32.
First create an ERD; Programs|Accessories|System Tools|Backup, then choose
ERD, then if you check the box for "Also backup....", then the reg will also
be backed up to
%windir%\repair\RegBack
leaving the
%windir%\repair\
directory files intact as original installation.
Then install Win98 to second drive (possibly an over-the-top install). This
will regenerate a Win98 boot sector on the system partition.(also destroys
the NT boot sector). If Windows 2000 partition is NTFS then this wont work
as Win98 can't write a boot sector to NTFS. In this case you'll need a third
party boot manager.
Then boot the Windows 2000 Setup disks and choose "R" for Repair, then "R"
to use repair process, then "M" for manual repair, choose "Inspect Startup
Environment" and "Inspect Boot Sector" only. This will cause bootsect.dos to
be created from the contents of the Win98 boot sector.
Some background info;
When you dualboot Win9x and Windows 2000; Windows 2000 creates a file named
bootsect.dos; if you select an operating system other than Windows 2000,
NTLDR loads bootsect.dos and passes control to it. The operating system then
starts up as normal, because bootsect.dos contains the boot sector that was
on the primary partition before you installed Windows 2000, hence the need
to go through the steps above to create a bootsect.dos
-- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Karl" wrote: | I have Win 2000 Pro installed on a 120GB hard drive, C: | (NTFS formatted) and Windows 98SE installed on a 5GB | second hard drive, E: (formatted FAT 32). The 5GB drive | was installed after Win 2000 came up and running. | | How can I now setup Win 2000 so I can select either | operating system without having to do pushups by deleting | and reloading? Please assume I am just a beginner. | | If this is the wrong newsgroup for the question, please | let me know what group would be correct. | | Thank you for your patient help and assistance. | | Karl
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