View Full Version : How do you bring back windows choice startup option on a drive that has win2k & 98?
IamAnoobieCheez
11-07-2004, 11:27 PM
the drive has win2k fat32 and win98se fat32, each has its own partition. The win98se had to be reformatted and installed. Now the windows choice startup option does not show up and win98se starts up right away. How do I bring such startup option back so I can make the choice which OS to boot?
Bogie
11-07-2004, 11:46 PM
Well i use system commander, for my machine that has xp pro and Susi.
IamAnoobieCheez
11-07-2004, 11:56 PM
how can i go about getting that? is it good? will it give me windows boot selection in the startup?
Bogie
11-08-2004, 12:09 AM
Here is a link for it http://www.v-com.com, even after i refomatted i just reinstalled and it gave the boot for either xp or Susi.
IamAnoobieCheez
11-08-2004, 07:52 AM
is there any way to fix it without having to purchase those programs? this is for my client's PC.
any manual repair? .. or some boot files missing?
pliz help meeeeeeeeee pliz pliz :(
IamAnoobieCheez
11-08-2004, 10:01 AM
The win98 is in the primary partition, and is active.
The win2000 is in the logical "volume" drive, and is not active.
both are in a single hard drive. I have already tried running some programs like "boot magic", "OSChooser", and other types of boot configuration utility but no go... it just won't detect the damn win2000 to get it to boot. It keeps booting up in stupid lammy ass crap win98 which i don't want to see.
Anybody know what files I need for win2k to boot?
masterofpuppets
11-08-2004, 10:42 AM
Win2k with FAT32, :/
It automaticly installed with NTFS with me.
IamAnoobieCheez
11-08-2004, 11:23 AM
Win2k with FAT32, :/
i know..... it sux. Damn customer's puter. :stick:
It automaticly installed with NTFS with me.
i wish i could do that. I can't touch the fat32 win2k os files.. they don't want it touched. I recommended them to upgrade to full version of winXP instead of reinstalling win98 but they wouldn't listen. :rolleyes:
my favs are:
- win2k NTFS
the beauty.....
IamAnoobieCheez
11-08-2004, 01:42 PM
It seems to be the HDD is possessed.
cause it doesn't CD boot (for win2k/xp) no matter what.
Bogie
11-08-2004, 02:39 PM
Maybe something in the boot.ini , but i really am not sure how to fix that. sorry
IamAnoobieCheez
11-08-2004, 04:53 PM
Maybe something in the boot.ini , but i really am not sure how to fix that. sorry
it's ok Bogie, I do appreciate your help. :) I was just so fed up with the computer earlier today.. I might have to give a program you mentioned a try.. Thank you. :)
sjohnson
11-08-2004, 07:17 PM
Take a careful look at http://www.cramsession.com/articles/files/dual-boot-windows-2000-9192003-1201.asp and proceed with caution.
In essence, if your Win98 install is on the C: drive, you can simply add c:\="Microsoft Windows" to boot.ini and it should work.
IamAnoobieCheez
11-09-2004, 12:19 PM
Two extra problems I haven't mentioned, the win2k partition is a Chinese version. I succeeded retrieving the boot selection OS menu but the win98 severely overwritten the bootsector files needed for the win2k to load (thanks to sjohnson).
Another is the motherboard is flakey, causing other problems..
the customer is planning to buy a new comp.
sjohnson, Great article.. :D I thank you deeply. That is a great information.
and also thanks to Bogie.
:)