XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,   
   microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion   
   From: NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com   
      
   (I included a storage ng, because all the problems related to   
   partitioning. Does that make it relevant to that ng?)   
      
   The final question is:, Following the seemingly successful shrinking   
   of a partition, XP will boot fine from the MS dual boot, but win98SE   
   just says "C: not found. (Enter Abort, Retry, xomething, or Fxxxxx):"   
   What should I do?            (I don't remember the exact message, but   
   you've all seen the part in parens.)   
      
      
      
   Part one of this is not very important, but maybe someone knows the   
   answer.  And it sets the stage for PART TWO, which follows PART ONE:   
      
   PART ONE   
      
   All of a sudden, when I start XPSP3, a dos-style progress bar goes   
   very quickly -- looks like coming out of hibernate, but faster, takes   
   about a second, and I'm not coming out of hibernate -- across the   
   bottom of the screen, at the very start, right after I pick an OS from   
   the MS dual boot screen.  Why?  How do I make it go away?  It seems   
   weird; how can such a thing happen?   
      
   I have always used MS dual boot with XP, since since I first installed   
   it 2 years ago.   
      
   This happened after:   
      
   1) I cloned both partitions on the harddrive to an matching partitions   
   on an external drive. .  I have win98SE as partition 1 and winXP as   
   partition 2.  I used XXCLone to back up each partition to separate   
   partitions on the ext disk.  No problems after that.   
      
   2) Then because my XP partition is getting full and the 98 partition   
   had plenty of space, I used the latest version of Parted Magic or   
   GParted (I didn't realize they were different, and I have to check   
   which I was using.  It ran from a boot CD) partition manager, 5.5 I   
   think, to shrink the 98 partition, but it had an error in the middle.   
   After that, booting gave me "NTLDR not present" (or something like   
   that). I had to slave this drive and install another master drive to   
   edit C partition boot.ini, plus I had to install NTLDR and Ntdetect.   
   I did all this, and then both OSes would boot, but that progress bar   
   was there for XP.   
      
   PART TWO   
      
   Then, instead of Parted or Gparted, I used Easeus Partition Master 6,   
   the latest version, to make the 98 partition smaller, leaving 16 gigs   
   of unallocated space in between, until after I test everything.   
   Well, XP booted just fine after this and it accessed many files from   
   the 98 partition, including executing a couple of them, but booting   
   win98SE just showed a black screen with a flashing underline in the   
   upper-left hand corner, that never went away.   
      
   I went back into XP, checked the boot.ini file and it hadn't changed.   
   XXClone has an option to make a disk bootable, so I tried the first   
   part, Write MBR.   When I tried to boot 98, nothing had changed.  Then   
   I went back and did the second part, Write Boot Sector, and after   
   that, it would go from the Dual Boot menu to the win98SE menu (which I   
   have it set up to always display) and I chose my usual, Boot with   
   logging.  It ran config.sys and autoexec.bat, and then, where I   
   normally displayed the time before leaving dos to start win98, it gave   
   a message, "Time invalid".  (I entered a time, which was there when   
   later I got to XP, but it didn't ask for a date, and the date was   
   still accurate in XP).  Then the next message was "C: not found,   
   abort, retry, or Fxxx"  When I tried F or Retry, I got the same   
   message again.  When I tried A for abort, the computer turned off.   
      
   What do I do now?   I want 98 to work still for several reasons.   
      
   Any help is greatly appreciated.   
      
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