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I have copies of Windows XP and Windows 98SE on a dual boot system. I just upgraded to a larger hard drive. Now I can only boot from the menu (which looks the same as it did on the other drive) to Windows XP. When I select Windows 98SE from the boot selection menu, the screen seemed to go black and hang. (I did not change a thing about the Windows 98SE drive. Not its location in the C: drive partition. Not its size. Windows 98SE is just on a larger hard drive. Windows XP is in its own, D: partition, with E: holding some of the XP software and data.)
Is there a quick and easy way to re-write the boot.ini file to permit the dual boot? (I have my original equipment XP CD-ROM.)
There's more about how I've come to this point in my original (how to clone a dual boot system inquiry here,
.)
I've summarized what seems relevant to this boot.ini problem here.
I have no DVD back-up of this system, so please don't suggest that I take any chances with the old drive. It's disconnected, and I plan to keep it that way.
Notes:
1. I have no idea what "informated" means in the other post. I believe my intent was "informed". Please forgive the spelling error.
2. Macrium had directed me to a problem discussion related to another failure to clone inquiry when I asked why their Reflect had not been willing to clone my hard drive (which I'd formatted as FAT32). The posting referenced the need to use NTFS instead of FAT32.
3. Yes, as far as I know, I do have legal copies of XP and 98SE. I had the XP CD ROM out days ago to clean off the original, messed-up attempt at formatting and cloning the old hard drive that would not let me boot XP with the new, larger hard drive as a slave installed in the system.
4. Although I am naturally impatient by nature, I almost never use Windows 98SE. (I still want the dual boot option as before.) I state this rare use of 98SE (since I have XP booting on the new drive) to note that although it is close to the top of my "to do" list relative to my computer over the long term, I can live with some delay in overcoming this problem. I don't want to rush off in the wrong direction or mess up the part of the clone that works to experiment with manual modification of boot.ini.
Thanks to any kind person who can help me to fix this problem.
Is there a quick and easy way to re-write the boot.ini file to permit the dual boot? (I have my original equipment XP CD-ROM.)
There's more about how I've come to this point in my original (how to clone a dual boot system inquiry here,
.)
I've summarized what seems relevant to this boot.ini problem here.
I have no DVD back-up of this system, so please don't suggest that I take any chances with the old drive. It's disconnected, and I plan to keep it that way.
Notes:
1. I have no idea what "informated" means in the other post. I believe my intent was "informed". Please forgive the spelling error.
2. Macrium had directed me to a problem discussion related to another failure to clone inquiry when I asked why their Reflect had not been willing to clone my hard drive (which I'd formatted as FAT32). The posting referenced the need to use NTFS instead of FAT32.
3. Yes, as far as I know, I do have legal copies of XP and 98SE. I had the XP CD ROM out days ago to clean off the original, messed-up attempt at formatting and cloning the old hard drive that would not let me boot XP with the new, larger hard drive as a slave installed in the system.
4. Although I am naturally impatient by nature, I almost never use Windows 98SE. (I still want the dual boot option as before.) I state this rare use of 98SE (since I have XP booting on the new drive) to note that although it is close to the top of my "to do" list relative to my computer over the long term, I can live with some delay in overcoming this problem. I don't want to rush off in the wrong direction or mess up the part of the clone that works to experiment with manual modification of boot.ini.
Thanks to any kind person who can help me to fix this problem.