Cannot boot from XP

[sheldon]

I just added a 120G hard drive to my 80G hard drive that
was running 98. I booted from the 80G to install XP onto
the 120G. When I changed the boot sequence start with the
120G it says: Cannot find win.com, unable to continue
loading Windows. What gives????

 

[Sharon F]

I just added a 120G hard drive to my 80G hard drive that
was running 98. I booted from the 80G to install XP onto
the 120G. When I changed the boot sequence start with the
120G it says: Cannot find win.com, unable to continue
loading Windows. What gives????

From your description it sounds like you have a dual boot set up and since
you started the installation from the Win98 drive, the XP boot manager
should be handling both operating systems for you. Try booting from the
Win98 drive. You should get a menu that asks which version of Windows
you want to load.

 

[Cypher]

Sheldon,

Are you doing a "Clean Install" or an "Upgrade to XP"? If you upgraged to
Windows XP, that is your problem. To be able to to boot from you 120GB drive
into XP you must to a clean install of XP on that drive.