Re: Can someone else help? Was changing partition size.

Original post was: "Changing Partition size" posted on 4-19-2009 at
8:30 am. I don't know how else to direct you to it.

Basically I have a dual boot system with Windows 98Se on C: partition
and Windows XP on D:partition on the same hard drive. Both partitions
are FAT 32. Installed 98 first, then XP to get the dual boot.
I used EASEUS Partition Master, that was recommended here, to resize
my C: partition smaller so that I can make D: larger. Now Windows 98SE no longer will boot up on C:. I'm scared to try to make D: larger now
after that happened. You told me to do this:

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.

But, it didn't work the way you said to do it and I answered with this:

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.

So now I get the option at boot up that I can choose which version I
want to boot up. If I choose the Windows98, the screen flashes and
returns to the option window again. If I choose Windows XP it boots
up in Windows XP.
I can't reinstall Windows 98SE because the updates are no longer
available that I know about. EASEUS Partition Maker support says
yes, you are right. If you do that, Windows 98 will no longer
boot up. Sorry that our software caused this problem.

Now I have two computers with dual boot and can not use Windows
98SE on either one. One won't boot to 98 because I added a gig of
memory. The other won't because of the above problem.
I tried the supposed fix to make Windows 98SE boot up with more
than a gig of memory but that has not worked either.

Dennis Q.



Tim Med*** wrote:
I'm very sorry, I really do try to look at all the posts I have originally answered (I have them as 'watched' messages in OE) and try to keep up. However, in this case I seem to have missed yours, sorry.

I can't find the original thread right now. But I think that I may have assumed that your XP installation was on the C: partition. I need to know what drives [letters] you are using with what operating systems are on them.

And, not only for others who are reading this, but also for my benefit, can you outline the original problem, or the problems you are having now? (...and please, try to be as exact as possible).

Thanks.


==

Cheers, Tim Med***, Peckham, London. :-)




"Dennis" <den942@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OgW8VaU5JHA.4404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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