booting problem

[Guest]

My Pc currently has XP and Win98 as a dual boot configuration. XP is on my C
drive, and 98 is on my D. i didn't boot in windows 98, c is my active
partition now,
i changed boot.ini and add the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98" /fastdetect

then i boot with windows 98 it shows, dll missing
what i should do , pl help me

 

[Ron Sommer]

How did you get Windows 98 on D?

Try this for the line for Windows 98
C:\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98" or
C:\WINDOWS or
D:\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98" or
D:\WINDOWS

 

[Ron Martell]

"dual booting problem" <dual booting

My Pc currently has XP and Win98 as a dual boot configuration. XP is on my C
drive, and 98 is on my D. i didn't boot in windows 98, c is my active
partition now,
i changed boot.ini and add the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98" /fastdetect

then i boot with windows 98 it shows, dll missing
what i should do , pl help me

Was your Windows 98 installed on D: drive, or was that drive using
drive letter C: when Windows was installed? If your Windows 98 was
installed as drive C: and you are now attempting to boot it as drive
D: then that would explain your DLL file error problem.

A couple of possible solutions:

1. Convert your XP drive to NTFS. Then when you boot Windows 98 it's
hard drive will get drive letter C: and any drive letter confusion
will be resolved.

2. Install a third party boot manager such as BootItNG from
www.bootitng.com and configure it so that the non-booting operating
system partition is hidden. That way whichever version of Windows
you boot it will always be drive C:

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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