New Drive

[Mike]

My original installation of XP Home included a dual boot
to Win 98SE which worked fine. I have just installed a new
hard drive and have transfered all files from my old
drives. Now I find that in the startup window when
selecting Win98 I get an "Invalid System Disk" message.
All files and locations are identical to the original only
on a larger drive with the same three partitions. The
original Win 98 installation was on a sepearte physical
drive.
Any ideas how I can fix this ?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Mike,

Is the disk housing the Win98 system installed?
Where is the Win98 installation physically housed now?
Start/run boot.ini, click edit/select all/edit/copy
Open a reply to this post, answer the first two questions, then hit ctrl+v
to paste boot.ini for examination.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Mike]

Hi Rick,
Win98 is installed and resides on a second partition (D
of my drive with XP on C:. Here is my boot.ini

[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 Home Edition" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery
Console" /cmdcons

Thanks for any help.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Mike,

It's looking for Win98 on C:\. Start the recovery console ( I see you have
it loaded as a boot option), run bootcfg /rebuild from the command prompt.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

Hi Rick,
Win98 is installed and resides on a second partition (D
of my drive with XP on C:. Here is my boot.ini

[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 Home Edition" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery
Console" /cmdcons

Thanks for any help.

-----Original Message-----
Hi Mike,

Is the disk housing the Win98 system installed?
Where is the Win98 installation physically housed now?
Start/run boot.ini, click edit/select all/edit/copy
Open a reply to this post, answer the first two questions, then hit ctrl+v
to paste boot.ini for examination.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone






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