Can someone else help? Was changing partition size.

Tim Meddic originally replied. What he suggested did not work. He
never answered my follow up question. This is all the correspondence:

Tim,
Finally had time to try this fix. I don't get on the screen what you
say I will get. When I choose "R" for Repair console, I get a message:
Which Windows XP do you want to repair? and my only choice is:
1. E:\Windows XP. If I choose choose 1, I get the password request
then I hit enter. This takes me to E:\Windows prompt, Not C:\ prompt.
If I type in fixboot C:, it says it will repair the boot information over writing the original info.. I said yes. It says it repaired it but
does not tell me to reboot. I rebooted anyway and I still can not boot
in to Windows 98, the screen flashes and I get the two choices again.
Fortunately Windows XP still worked.

Tim Med*** wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
> In that case it's a matter of rebuilding the boot partition. The Partition table is sometimes written over be programs that resize partitions. Unfortunately, this is where XP writes a tiny bit of code to start the boot menu that you [used to] see when your computer starts up. To repair this you need your XP installation disk. Configure your BIOS settings to be able to boot from the cd. Put the cd in the drive and boot from it. When it gives you the choice - select the item: "Repair XP with Recovery Console". After it starts you will be prompted for the Administrator password, so beforehand you should know what this is. If you have never configured a password for Administrator, it will have remained 'blank' and just pressing [ENTER] when the password is required will be fine. Then you will be faced by a DOS-style "C:\>" prompt. This is NOT the same as DOS and for a list of available commands type "help" and press [ENTER] for more help on a command type the command followed by a /? forward-slash / questionmark 'switch'. So for the 'fixboot' command help would look like:
>
> fixboot /?
>
> ..and you would get::
>
> Writes a new bootsector onto the system partition.
>
> FIXBOOT [drive:]
>
> [drive:] Specifies the drive to which a boot sector
> will be written, overriding the default
> choice of the system boot partition.
>
> ....etc. Then type:
>
> fixboot c:
>
> ...at the prompt and press [ENTER] reboot. Your boot.ini file listing the available bootable Windows installations (i.e. XP and 98) should be intact on you XP drive, and all should be as it was with regards to your boot process.
>
> Good luck with this. Re-post with the results of your exploits and/or any [further] problems.
.

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