I have 2 drives, my main drive is a WD 120 GB with Win XP Pro and my old 80 GB WD with 98 SE. I tried to make a partition on my second drive using partition magic and now my computer won't boot to the main drive. I switched the boot order to the drive with 98 SE. It shows up under SE in My Computer but I can't access it. Is there any way to make it bootable again or am I going to have to reformat? Thanks.
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HELP, screwed up creating partition
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Ice Czar
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1st boot into XP and
Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc
which partition and HDD is listed as the system partition?
then
start windows explorer
on the top bar > Tools > Folder Options > View Tab > Show Hidden Files and Folders > OK
Open the Partition you have XP installed to (probably C
RClick the boot.ini > open with > notepad
copy it and post it here
Dual Booting Win98 with XP
Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc
which partition and HDD is listed as the system partition?
then
start windows explorer
on the top bar > Tools > Folder Options > View Tab > Show Hidden Files and Folders > OK
Open the Partition you have XP installed to (probably C
RClick the boot.ini > open with > notepad
copy it and post it here
Dual Booting Win98 with XP
I
Ice Czar
Guest
ahhh... then if its a fresh install follow the instructions in the link above and redo it
its best to leave the partitioning to the Install disk or Disk Management in XP (after the install) and avoid partition magic for that
I only use it to resize, move ect
win98 lacks the files you need to dual boot both
(ntldr and boot.ini)
its best to leave the partitioning to the Install disk or Disk Management in XP (after the install) and avoid partition magic for that
I only use it to resize, move ect
win98 lacks the files you need to dual boot both
(ntldr and boot.ini)
Let me explain a little more. Back in December I bought the 120 GB drive and installed as master with a fresh install of XP on it keeping my old drive with 98 as slave. I wasn't really planning on creating a dual boot environment I just kept it so I could transfer stuff over to the new drive. Fast forward to yesterday, I decided to make a small partition on the second drive to store some files because I was running out of room my main drive and I figured if anything went wrong I would just reformat that second drive because there wasn't anything really important on it anyways. Since it was the second drive I was making the partition on I didn't think it could screw up the first drive. Anyways, now I can't do ANYTHING with the first drive. If I try to boot into that drive, it just hangs in BIOS. When I boot into the second drive it shows the other drive as D drive but if I click on it it just says drive not accessible. I hope that clears things up.
I
Ice Czar
Guest
OK in that case
disconnect the Win98 drive
grab your XP install CD
boot into the BIOS and set your first boot device to CDROM
boot to the CD and run a repair install
after your done reattach the other drive and you should be able to boot to either via the BIOS Boot order
the default HDD0 postion is the master on the Primary Channel
disconnect the Win98 drive
grab your XP install CD
boot into the BIOS and set your first boot device to CDROM
boot to the CD and run a repair install
after your done reattach the other drive and you should be able to boot to either via the BIOS Boot order
the default HDD0 postion is the master on the Primary Channel
I
Ice Czar
Guest
OK well that could be hardware related
disconnect the other drives
and just leave the CDROM
(also double check your jumpers while your at it, make sure one of the HDDs isnt jumpered as a single\Master with no slave present if there is one or Master with slave present if there isnt
make sure all masters are at the end of the cable, and slaves on the middlw connector)
then see if you can boot to it
if not BIOS > PNP\PCI submenu force update ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data)
actually applies to Plug and Pray Peripherals, but seems to breakup DMI hangs with drives as well
failing that, replace the cable try the above again
failing that change to Cable Select and try again
failing that, download and run memtest86+
disconnect the other drives
and just leave the CDROM
(also double check your jumpers while your at it, make sure one of the HDDs isnt jumpered as a single\Master with no slave present if there is one or Master with slave present if there isnt
make sure all masters are at the end of the cable, and slaves on the middlw connector)
then see if you can boot to it
if not BIOS > PNP\PCI submenu force update ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data)
actually applies to Plug and Pray Peripherals, but seems to breakup DMI hangs with drives as well
failing that, replace the cable try the above again
failing that change to Cable Select and try again
failing that, download and run memtest86+