dual boot
HI guys, Trying to get a dual boot pc going again. Win98 and winnt os. On starting the message Boot:cannot find ntldr appears. I can't go any further. Tried booting with WinNT CD and went into Repapir installation and says no previous installation of NT present.
HI guys,
Trying to get a dual boot pc going again. Win98 and winnt os. On starting the message "Boot:cannot find ntldr" appears. I can't go any further. Tried booting with WinNT CD and went into Repapir installation and says no previous installation of NT present. I removed hard disk and used it as a slave in another computer. There is a c:\winnt directory but no winnt.exe anywhere. Ntldr is also present in c:\ . Just can't get past the initial message of not finding ntldr. Tried making a boot disk but to no avail.
Any help or tips greatly appreciated.
Leeser
Trying to get a dual boot pc going again. Win98 and winnt os. On starting the message "Boot:cannot find ntldr" appears. I can't go any further. Tried booting with WinNT CD and went into Repapir installation and says no previous installation of NT present. I removed hard disk and used it as a slave in another computer. There is a c:\winnt directory but no winnt.exe anywhere. Ntldr is also present in c:\ . Just can't get past the initial message of not finding ntldr. Tried making a boot disk but to no avail.
Any help or tips greatly appreciated.
Leeser
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If you're trying to put the 2 operating systems on the same disk, that won't work - you'll need to separate the disk into 2 different partitions - or get another disk and put NT on that.
Install Win98 into the first partition, then install NT into the second partition. As part of the install, NT should recognise the presence of Win98, and install the necessary dual boot bits onto the Win98 partition.
Hope this helps
Rgds
AndyF
Install Win98 into the first partition, then install NT into the second partition. As part of the install, NT should recognise the presence of Win98, and install the necessary dual boot bits onto the Win98 partition.
Hope this helps
Rgds
AndyF
Thanks for your reply, but I think I didn't ask the right question!
The computer in question already has both OS installed and on trying to reboot I get the "cannot find ntldr" error message. I have tried another diagnostic and it says hal.dll is missing from Windows root\system\ please install. I'd love to but I can't access the harddrive at all.
Cheers
leeser
The computer in question already has both OS installed and on trying to reboot I get the "cannot find ntldr" error message. I have tried another diagnostic and it says hal.dll is missing from Windows root\system\ please install. I'd love to but I can't access the harddrive at all.
Cheers
leeser
