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Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

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Name: Marc
Date: November 08, 2001 at 08:34:49 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Comment:

I had a dual boot with win98 and winXP pro
(each O.S. in a different partition).
I have formated C: and re-installed win98 but
I have lost the dual boot menu.
Everything seems in place in D: but I don't know
how to have the menu that allows to choose O.S.
I wouldn't like to use XOSL or any other software.
Could anybody tell me how to do it?
THANKS

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Response Number 1

Name: Eugene T
Date: November 08, 2001 at 08:45:28 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

You can't reinstall win98 and keept the menu. you might need to reinstall XP or repair it to get the menu back

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Response Number 2

Name: Huey
Date: November 08, 2001 at 12:14:51 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

Ok Marc here's what to do,
goto control panel>system>advanced>startup and recovery settings>system startup edit.
This allows you to edit the boot.ini file,
and edit as follows -

[Boot Loader]
timeout=30
Default=C:\
[Operating Systems]
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

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Response Number 3

Name: Mark
Date: November 08, 2001 at 20:20:46 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

Um, Huey, I think the guy's problem is that he can't even GET into XP as there is no longer a boot menu...so I don't think your advice will be easy to follow since it requires editing the boot menu from within XP.

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Response Number 4

Name: Marc
Date: November 09, 2001 at 04:20:49 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

Thanks Eugene, Huey and Mark. That's exactly my prob, I cannot get into XP. If there's any solution I will gladly take it, otherwise I'll have to re-install XP.
Is there a way to get into XP?

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Response Number 5

Name: Dave
Date: November 09, 2001 at 08:10:09 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

You can get into win98?
Is XP on D?
Can you get to the boot.ini via explorer?
Havent worked with XP yet so I'm not sure where this would go. I would however be interested to see how to resolve this.
Is it by default that XP won't alow for dual boot?

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Response Number 6

Name: Huey
Date: November 09, 2001 at 11:49:59 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

As the boot.ini is called from C drive you can edit it from win 98.
You will have to unhide it from folder options, open it then simply cut and paste from [Boot Loader] to fastdetect in my previous post.

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Response Number 7

Name: Marc
Date: November 09, 2001 at 13:51:41 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

I have win98 on C and winXP on D.
My folders options are as to show all hidden files, still I don�t get to see/find the boot.ini.
Could anyone give me instructions to find it?
Once there I�ll cut&paste.
Thanks for your patience and help.

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Response Number 8

Name: Huey
Date: November 09, 2001 at 16:43:18 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

Make sure Hide protected files is unchecked as well as Show hidden files, boot.ini is on the root of C,
it will show as a text file named 'boot'
you won't find it doing a search as it has a
hidden attribute.

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Response Number 9

Name: Felix
Date: November 09, 2001 at 19:17:14 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

try to install Power Quest Boot Manager on Win 98 and use it to choose the operating system you want to boot into.

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Response Number 10

Name: Marc
Date: November 10, 2001 at 02:41:07 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

Huey,
Is there any chance I don't have it?
I got Bootlog.txt, Bootlog.prv, etc. but I don't see any boot.ini.
I am running Windows98 first edition.

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Response Number 11

Name: Huey
Date: November 10, 2001 at 06:42:16 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

Marc,
Go into bios and change the boot sequence to D first (winxp), reboot then follow instuctions in my first post

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Response Number 12

Name: Marc
Date: November 10, 2001 at 08:46:46 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

SORTED OUT.
In the end this is what I have done. I have created a boot.ini file with Huey's code (just changed to 5 seconds delay). It works beautifully.
THANKS TO YOU ALL, IN PARTICULAR TO HUEY

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Response Number 13

Name: Huey
Date: November 10, 2001 at 13:14:22 Pacific
Subject: Dual boot menu is gone!!

Reply:

No problem Marc, glad to be of help.

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