XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,   
   microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   mm wrote:   
      
   > (I included a storage ng, because all the problems related   
   > to partitioning. Does that make it relevant to that ng?)   
      
   Yes.   
      
   > The final question is:,   
      
   Bet it isnt.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   You could hang yourself.   
      
   > (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.   
      
   I'd do a repair install of the XP and do a clean install of 98 again.   
      
   You may well have comprehensively fucked the installs by   
   farting around with various different partition managers.   
      
   > I have more information, that I didnt' think to get at first.   
      
   > For some reason, according to EaseUS run under winXP   
      
   > Partition 1, the win98 partition is marked  System and Primary.   
   > Partition 2, the winXP partition is marked  Boot.   
      
   > Is that right?   
      
   > Win98 is where 98 was first installed and where the boot.ini is.   
   > In boot.ini, the default is to go to partition 2 and start XP.   
      
   > I thought part 1 was the boot partition until it handed off to part 2.   
   > Why does Easus regard part 2 as a boot partition?   Is it because   
   > I'm in XP already, and I'd get a different result if I booted from a   
   > partition manager CD?   
      
   One obvious way to check that.   
      
   > For some reason, trying to start Partition Magic 8 freezes the computer   
   > at the flash screen, but this program is entirely on the XP partition.   
      
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