w2k server installed over 98se 1

[Guest_imported]

I had this w2k server installed over 98se the other day and now
every time I boot I have to go over the black screen of choosing
98 or w2k. I had chosen to install the w2k into another part.
(while the 98se was there already) during the installation and I
expect that the w2k can boot independently of the 98se. That I
may use another boot loader to boot them seperately (If I boot
w2k, the w2k part. will become c: and the 98 part. would become
d:; while booting the 98 will make 98 part. c: without seeing the
w2k--because I have part. the w2k as NTFS) Now everything
seems to have messed up. Can I sort of fix this up and come up
with what I expected? I notice that a boot.ini file has been
introduced into the 98 part.. If I just dele this file (or rename it)
the 98 would not be able to boot. If I tried to boot from the NTFS
(by using a third part boot loader) it wouldn't do either. I am really
getting tired of this. Can someone kindly tell me how to clear this
mess up. (I won't mind why or how I get into this so long as I
know how to get out of this) Please help me out !!!!!

 

[Hungster]

Why don't you just modify the boot.ini to load win2k server by default instead

 

[TheGoodRev]

Win2k has imo a nasty habit of copying over/onto whatever is on the active drive, which in your case was win98.

Youd think they would act independetly, but I havent found a simple way of achieving this. Like hungster said though, its a really simple alteration to the boot.ini fine to make win2k load first. Or another solution is probably to make win2k your active drive, and then it will ignore the boot files on the win98 machine and use its own.

Just out of general interests sake, I actually did something similar to what you did, copy win2k onto a machine that had winXP on it. Win2k actually wiped my XP boot files in its inherent wisdom, despite the fact that they were more recent files (ntldr, boot & ntdetect) without warning the person installing. This just left me with a nasty blue screen. I know its an older version of an OS, but I still wasnt impressed.

 

[Guest_imported]

I know I can modify the boot.ini but that's not I want.
Even if I modify the boot.ini, the two OS are not behaving
what I have in mind. All that is done is no good. I am
expecting they are independent of each other. In my case,
if I scratched any one OS part. the other would not boot.
It is what I have tried already. I don't want to see the
black screen of choice menu at all (I have another OS to
install on this machine)

 

[Hungster]

you are in a real mess,
you should of done is to use all FAT32 on both, like TheGoodRev said, Win2k server like to be the boss
if you use FAT32 then you loose all the rights assigning permission

or get another hard drive and use the removable slot in your cd rom bay and change it if you need to use either one

you just creating more problem down to road

 

[rajavelupmc]

If the black screen is the only problem
you could go to system properties click on advanced -> startup and recovery.
Click the check box which say display list of operating system.
that way it will boot directly with out giving you a option

 

[GlenJohnson]

You can also tell it to show a list for however many seconds, so if you want to boot into 98, set w2k for the os of choice, and give yourself 5 or 10 seconds, then it will automatically boot once the time frame is up. This will give you the choice of 98 without having to deal with it for more than however you want. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
gjohn76351@msn.com
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