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re: Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos!
Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 6:35 am
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Posted by Keetone (3 messages posted)


Sys.com in dos mode with your 98 start up disk will take care of the ntldr error message.


On Monday, February 11, 2002 at 11:01 am, Richard wrote:
>I currently have a 20GB hard drive with windows2000 installed on it, in FAT32 format.
>I recently purchassed an additional 2.5GB hard drive, with the intention of installing
>windows98 on it.
>
>(This was so i could dual boot, and for various reasons, formatting the 20GB drive
>and starting fresh is simply not an option.)
>
>It currently recognises both drives, and updates the ESCD successfully, and then
>it has problems. If i insert a win98 boot up disk for it (as it asks,) it says that
>"NTLDR is missing".
>
>I figured that if i removed the 20GB drive, and tried to format/install on the 2.5GB
>drive first, then put the 20GB drive back in, it might work, but sadly it did'nt
>work.
>
>Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated.


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Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos! (Richard: Monday, February 11, 2002 at 11:01 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos! (Richard: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 11:01 am)
*re: Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos! (Michael: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:41 pm)
*re: Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos! (Sherman Barnard: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 2:33 pm)
*re: Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos! (Gil Mauldin: Tue, Feb 12, 2002, 8:30 pm)
*re: Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos! (Keetone: Sat, Feb 16, 2002, 6:35 am)
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