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RJ
08-01-02, 07:37 PM
I have win2k and winxp I went and created another partition to install win98 with partition magic when finished it rebooted and stopped at dmi pool and goes no further I cant get XP or w2k to boot please help

turd
08-01-02, 08:00 PM
well you could try and boot into your 2k CD and when it gets to the "welcome to setup" screen, after it loads all your drivers, hit F10. Then type:

fixboot
fixmbr

and you should get a nonstandard boot warning, then type exit and reboot and you may be back at your 2k, xp boot

good luck

RJ
08-01-02, 10:22 PM
no good its notreconizing the other drives with xpor 2000 but it shows the in the startup disk

turd
08-02-02, 01:11 AM
So you cant boot into the recovery cosole? How about dos can you boot into dos and check fdisk and then try fdisk /mbr on your c: part? If nothing else you may have to load boot magic up and see what it can do for you, I think partition magic comes with that dosent it? It is about the best of the loaders any way, and if you cant get a boot into your recovery console or dos and your not seeing your drive I dont know what to tell you, I myself would probably wipe the whole disk and start over.