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Editing boot.ini

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PerD

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May 4, 2000
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Hi<br><br>Could anyone show me how to edit the boot.ini file?<br>I'm trying to add a bootoption for win98 on another harddrive.<br>When I choose the win98 option it complains about missing WinNT-files.<br><br>/Regards Per<br><br>
 
I may be wrong, but the only method I know to enable the Windows NT boot loader to correctly load a Win98 installation you describe is to:<br><br>1. Create an Emergency Repair Disk for NT<br>2. Make sure you have your NT Setup boot floppies<br>3. Boot the computer with your Win98 Boot Disk<br>4. Copy the system files to drive C.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SYS C<br>5. Modify the Windows98 path in MSDOS.SYS<br>6. Make sure you can boot successfully into Win98<br>7. Boot the computer with the NT Setup boot disk<br>8. Choose Repair and select the &quot;Inspect Boot Sector&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and &quot;Inspect Startup Environment&quot; options and follow<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the prompts until reboot.<br><br>This should get you where you want to be. You also want to check MS Knowledgebase for confirmation or additional information.<br><br>dxd
 
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