It's probably because you installed the recovery console which overwrote
BOOTSECT.DOS. Change boot.ini back to read
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=16
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WIN2000
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WIN2000="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (legacy programs)"
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons
Then boot a win98 startup disk and from the command line issue the command
sys C:
to restore the win98 boot sector.
Then after this start the recovery console and from a command prompt issue
the command;
fixboot
to repair the bootsector. (note don't try installing the recovery console as
this isn't/ wasn't necessary)
To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks.
Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a Windows
2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do
not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Note If the registry is corrupted
or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery Console starts
in the root of the startup volume without requiring a password. You cannot
access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk, fixboot,
and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the password has been validated,
you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access to the hard
disk. You can only access the following folders on your computer:
%systemroot% and %windir%
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
:
| Good morning, Dave.
|
| Here are the boot results and errors.
|
| Method OS Choice Result
| -------- --------------------- -----------------------------------
| -------
| NT Boot Win2K Success
| Normal Win2K Success
|
| NT Boot 98 SE "Error accessing boot sector
file"
| Normal 98 SE "Error accessing boot sector
file"
|
| NT Boot Recovery Console "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file" *
| Normal Recovery Console Success
|
| NT Boot Default (Win 2K) "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file"
*
| Normal Default (Win 2K) "Missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe file"
*
|
| * It was looking for the copy in <Win2K root>\System32\ntoskrnl.exe. I
also
| found two other copies in backup folders.
|
| I double clicked on all three of them. This was an attempt to see if the
| files were corrupt. They all gave the same error message: "Access to the
| specified device, path, or file is denied." They were all the same size
| (1,719,056). This tells me that they are all the same and that they all
| work. I therefore conclude that ntoskrnl.exe is not defective or missing
and
| that there is some other error.
|
| The contents of the boot.ini file are as follows.
|
| [Boot Loader]
| Timeout=16
| Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
| [Operating Systems]
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WIN2000="Microsoft Windows 2000
| Professional" /fastdetect
| C:\="Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (legacy programs)"
| C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons
|
| I cannot get to Win98 SE, although it is there and it worked fine until I
| did the fixboot. At this point, I do not know what to do next.
|
| Thank you for any more help you or others can give me.
|
| Walter Donavan
|
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