win98 2K problem

[dpmuskrat69]

I have had Win 98 and 2K Pro running for about 2 months when I received the cannot boot NTLDR missing message. I have both on the same drive and I need DOS to run some EXPENSIVE DOS programs until I can figure out how to run DOS programs with dongles inside 2K. Win 98 is C: and 2K is E: (the system has chosen to call my other hard drive D: for some reason) I can boot my WIN 98, and could look at the contents of E: but only about 6 entries show, and about 7 Gig used space. When I try to repair from console it does not give me an operating system to choose to repair. If I try to reinstall 2K from inside 98 it tells me it can't because I have multiple systems, and can't upgrade one without possibly damaging the other. I purchased partition magic to try to remedy this, but after toying with it a bit I can lo longer view my e: from 98. I had my 2K set up pretty well, and I have data I would like to not loose. It seems the best approach might be to remove my 2K, and reinstall from within partition manager.


Thanks in advance for your help.

[vikeor]

well.. all i can tell u is that the NTDLR means that your boot sector is dead or corrupt. Try running the windows recovery thingy. There have been numerous posts about this so do a search and i bet ull find sumthing usful.

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[Bill in SD, CA]

Welcome to TechIMO!!

Might want to consider getting a second hard drive and put 2K on it and slave the other drive in order to recover data.


Bill

[Bovon]

(the system has chosen to call my other hard drive D: for some reason)

When a drive is setup and made active (at least the main DOS partition) it will be the C: drive...always. If another drive is added, and it also has an active partition (or the entire drive) it will become the D: drive.

When setting up a hard drive with several partitions, and a portion of it will be the C: drive, then you make it active..this also makes it bootable. All other partitions are just created...and are not made active and formatted..this allows the drive letters fall in place. When a second hard drive is added, it should be setup either in partitions or in whole...formatted and made ready to use, but not made active..when connected as a slave, it will now fall way downstream with a drive letter at the end.

I presume the E: was there when you installed Win2K?...if by chance it was the D: drive, and you later added a slave drive that took over the D: position..this is why you cannot access Win2K anymore.