Houston We Have A Problem!!!!

[Guest]

Houston We Have A Problem.. Ok I made 2 posts within the last week about Dual
Booting. I got some great feedback on what to do. When i tried to install win
XP on my D: drive it locked everything up. I am partially.. Noooo fully
responsible for this. I have my winxp copied to my D: drive in a folder named
winXp. What I did was,I clicked on the setup tab to install win XP. it
started without any problems and as it started going through the setup I
noticed it said winxp upgrade. I didnt realize until it was to late. It did
give me the option to go to an advaned tab where I could set the drive I
wanted to setup on. I set it,so it would set up on the D: drive. thinking
that was what I was suppose to do. as in the instructions I was givin. Well
when it asked to reboot I did. Now I cant get into windows 98. i hope i just
about covered everything. anyones help would be greatly appreciated. if i can
at least get wondows 98 up i can go in and install the upgrade. I allready
tried to reinstall win98 but the C: drive has been chenged to NTFS which is
the underlieing problem. I think. well any input will help. the only thing i
can think of to do next is FORMATTING.. which i hope i dont have to do.
seeing as i didnt back up like a ding bat... lol weel thank in advance for
your help!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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| Houston We Have A Problem.. Ok I made 2 posts within the last week about Dual
| Booting. I got some great feedback on what to do. When i tried to install win
| XP on my D: drive it locked everything up. I am partially.. Noooo fully
| responsible for this. I have my winxp copied to my D: drive in a folder named
| winXp. What I did was,I clicked on the setup tab to install win XP. it
| started without any problems and as it started going through the setup I
| noticed it said winxp upgrade. I didnt realize until it was to late. It did
| give me the option to go to an advaned tab where I could set the drive I
| wanted to setup on. I set it,so it would set up on the D: drive. thinking
| that was what I was suppose to do. as in the instructions I was givin. Well
| when it asked to reboot I did. Now I cant get into windows 98. i hope i just
| about covered everything. anyones help would be greatly appreciated. if i can
| at least get wondows 98 up i can go in and install the upgrade. I allready
| tried to reinstall win98 but the C: drive has been chenged to NTFS which is
| the underlieing problem. I think. well any input will help. the only thing i
| can think of to do next is FORMATTING.. which i hope i dont have to do.
| seeing as i didnt back up like a ding bat... lol weel thank in advance for
| your help!

 

[Guest]

Carey i have gone through the links you gave these really dont help me at ths
point. What i need to do. Is i have to be able to get win98 back up and then
i can go in and start the upgrade over by istalling it to the right
directory. is there anyway of being able to do this? i am at wits end LOL and
need a little bit of guidence.
thenk you for your help in my lil dilemma....

 

[NotMe]

Which drive had W98 on it?
If it was C, and it is now NTFS, W98 is poof.
You would have to fdisk, format FAT32 and reinstall W98; then install XP
again, NOT as an upgrade.

 

[Sharon F]

Houston We Have A Problem.. Ok I made 2 posts within the last week about Dual
Booting. I got some great feedback on what to do. When i tried to install win
XP on my D: drive it locked everything up. I am partially.. Noooo fully
responsible for this. I have my winxp copied to my D: drive in a folder named
winXp. What I did was,I clicked on the setup tab to install win XP. it
started without any problems and as it started going through the setup I
noticed it said winxp upgrade. I didnt realize until it was to late. It did
give me the option to go to an advaned tab where I could set the drive I
wanted to setup on. I set it,so it would set up on the D: drive. thinking
that was what I was suppose to do. as in the instructions I was givin. Well
when it asked to reboot I did. Now I cant get into windows 98. i hope i just
about covered everything. anyones help would be greatly appreciated. if i can
at least get wondows 98 up i can go in and install the upgrade. I allready
tried to reinstall win98 but the C: drive has been chenged to NTFS which is
the underlieing problem. I think. well any input will help. the only thing i
can think of to do next is FORMATTING.. which i hope i dont have to do.
seeing as i didnt back up like a ding bat... lol weel thank in advance for
your help!

Both the upgrade install and the dual boot install would not change the
file system *unless* you deleted the existing FAT32 partition and then
formatted.

If your Win98/C: drive is still FAT32, you might still be able to fix this.
See Doug Knox's page for directions on retrofitting Win9x onto a WinXP
system. You're working the other way around - adding XP to a Win98 system-
but it could still help you figure out what needs to be changed and where:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

Run fdisk from a MS-DOS bootdisk to get some partition info (do not make
changes, just run it to get the info). If C: shows as "non-MSDOS" then it
is no longer FAT32, you didn't do what you think you did and recovering the
Win98 install is out of the question.

 

[Guest]

Well i was able to figure out what i had done wrong. the other day i went
into Fdisk and changed a couple of things. i remember this after the fact and
went back in and changed them back. everything installed ok allthough i
wasnt able to do a dual boot like i wanted to. I had everything set up to go
on the D: drive and it did. when i shut down the first 2 times the promt came
up whr i could choose either win98 or winXP then the third time it went
right into win98 and the promt failed to show up. So i gbasically gave up and
just went with the upgrade. i now have winxp loaded and it seems to be
working fine...... So Far.... LOL i lost the D: drive because it was
converted to NTFS and it still isnt showing up in windows explorer but right
about now i dont care. Maybe in a month when i need more space i will.... LOL
well anyways thank you to everyone who has helped me through this whole
ordeal.
i truly appreciate all you have done!

Thank Again,
XFF_Mordakai

Steve.