Re-sized partitions and lost "C"

I have a dual boot system with 5 partitions; C = Win98SE, D = swapfile, E = data, F = Win2K, E = temporary storage of ghost files. I resized my partitions (using partition magic 5) and lost the ability to boot to C (my win98 OS) but I can still boot to F (my W2K OS).

Windows Software 5498 This topic was started by twolfson, 2002-08-01 16:04

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twolfson

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#90132

2002-08-01 18:04

I have a dual boot system with 5 partitions;
C = Win98SE, D = swapfile, E = data, F = Win2K, E = temporary storage of
ghost files.
I resized my partitions (using partition magic 5) and lost the ability to
boot to "C" (my win98 OS) but I can still boot to "F" (my W2K OS).

Wassuup with that?, Any Idea's?
Terry

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DosFreak

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#90133

2002-08-01 18:05

Where did the free space to resize come from?
Is your 98 partition still there? Is it still FAT?
Is your boot.ini pointing to the location of your MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM 98 files?

twolfson

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#90134

2002-08-01 18:40

I made "C" 1 gig. smaller (I still have 1 gig free on "C"), and allocated that gig to "E" and "G".

"C" is still fat 32.

I don't know the answer to your third question.. this is a copy of my boot.ini file (the default has always been to boot to W2K):
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /sos
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS/COMMAND.COM are all in c:\

DosFreak

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#90135

2002-08-01 18:47

What happens when you choose Windows 98 from the boot menu?

twolfson

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#90136

2002-08-01 18:54

Screen message;
Invalid system disk (or something like that).
I have to wait 25minutes to reboot 'cause I just started downloading SP3.
I'll check in half an hour.

twolfson

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#90137

2002-08-01 19:26

OK, I checked.
The Screen message is;
"Invalid system disk
Replace the disk and press any key"

vern2

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#90138

2002-08-01 23:00

How can you still boot to win2k if you get invalid system disk?

twolfson

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#90139

2002-08-01 23:33

I don't know, It's dual boot.
Only after I choose which system to boot to do I get the error (if I choose the Win98 boot sector).

twolfson

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#90140

2002-08-03 18:26

Alex;
Before you sent your reply I gave up on truing to shrink the C partition.
I resized the partition back to where it was when I started all this and restored C from a ghost boot image.
Everything's working fine now.

Thanks,
Terry