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    Help with boot.ini

    Recently I have been hit with the NTLDR is missing error message, but as I had my windows xp disc at hand and a working copy of linux I was able to fix this to an extent.

    Basically I have a tri-boot system, windows 98 for old games, windows xp for everything else and Redhat 9 which I used to used for homework.

    Using a floppy and Redhat 9 I was able to recreate a boot.ini file and then using windows xp recovery disc I could insert this back into the right drive as well as restoring ntldr.

    Now I can get back into windows xp and Redhat but I can't get into windows 98. Even by editing the boot.ini to point at the correct partition that windows 98 is installed on.

    Any ideas anyone.
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    Re: Help with boot.ini

    You'll need bootsect.dos for W98 to run. Here's the MS doc on getting it back.

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    Re: Help with boot.ini

    Quote Originally Posted by charleski View Post
    You'll need bootsect.dos for W98 to run. Here's the MS doc on getting it back.
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    Re: Help with boot.ini

    Yep. The doc is old, but it still applies to all 'NT'-style OSs including Win2k and XP.

    Assuming bootsect.dos is at C:\ you then make a boot.ini that looks like
    Code:
    timeout=30
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
    [operating systems]
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
    C:\ = "Windows 98"
    Actually, I'm not sure if 'bootsect.dos' is W95-specific. There's a reasonably thorough page here. You need to go through the bootsector shuffle anyway.
    Last edited by charleski; 19-08-2007 at 11:51 PM.

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