can't get XP to boot

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I cannot get my XP partition to boot. Dual boot system, no boot menu appears and w98 boots up no matter what I do. w98 is on C:, XP Pro on D: -- this has always worked fine, but I ran NAV from/on the w98 OS, got the "boot record changed" message, and told it to go ahead and restore the older record BAM. No XP

Please help. Maybe I need to use system restore at the commandline level? Maybe I should boot to the XP installation CD

I tried cd\D: > restore, and got a "bad command" message.
 
Hi Lloyd,

I cannot get my XP partition to boot. Dual boot system, no boot menu appears and w98 boots up no matter what I do. w98 is on C:, XP Pro on D: -- this has always worked fine, but I ran NAV from/on the w98 OS, got the "boot record changed" message, and told it to go ahead and restore the older record BAM. No XP.

Please help. Maybe I need to use system restore at the commandline level? Maybe I should boot to the XP installation CD?

I tried cd\D: > restore, and got a "bad command" message.
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Try booting to the XP CD, going to the recovery console and using the
command
fixmbr
(this will fix the master boot record)
you could also research the command
bootconfg /?

Info about using restore in a command line:

HOW TO: Start the System Restore Tool from a Command Prompt in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;304449

Good luck
 
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