lost my dual boot - - now in despair 1

[mel999]

Panic stations:

Picture the scene. - - My hard drive is partitioned into two @ 20 gig each. I have win M/E on “C” drive and XP Pro on “D” drive.

Last night wife decided she wanted Windows 98SE back on so reformatted “C” drive with the intention of installing 98. Then she decided - - no, it don’t matter.

I am now left in the position where I cannot access “D” drive to get to my own work this of course being Win XP.

Soooooooooo, I re-installed Win M/E on “C” drive, and now it will not dual boot to let me into one or the other, it just boots straight to “C” drive.

HELP - HELP - HELP.

 

[allteltec]

Your XP boot info was on C: you need that info back, You should be able to boot from your XP CD into Repair Console and fixboot
fixmbr
bootcfg /renew

I have not had a lot of luck geting these to work, I was trying to ghost a copy of 2000 Pro to 2nd partistion win98 has on first paristion. I had copy NTDETECT.EXE, ntdr and boot.ini to C:\ and ran Repair Console fixes but ended up I used 3 party system commander to get the dual boot to work.

 

[haga147]

you can use diskpart to set drive d: as active and once rebooted it will bootup on drive d:.. This will only work if drive d: was never formatted..

 

[mel999]

allteltec - thank you, your a star.
All is now ok -- phew