As I mentioned early in this thread, you need to find out where the BIOS is
going for the boot initiator routines that ask you which OS you want to
boot.
As you have already indicated that you are not using a 3rd party boot
manager, then the location of the
Boot.ini
file is probably where the system is going to get the boot initiation
routines
If that is on the 'C' partition then you should not delete that 'C'
partition until you have persuaded the system to go to the other partition
for it's boot initiation modules.
Note I am using the reference 'C' to indicate partition that contains Win98,
and is presumably 0,0,0,0 on your system
In order to adjust the boot process you will need a facility that allows you
to boot the system and run a partition manager, or a version of Fdisk that
handles NTFS partitions
Yes -
As Carl says,
the best way to get the system to run from C: is a re-install
But you can get the system to run the boot process from other partitions
than the first one on the drive,
however that process involves risks that only experienced people should
consider voluntarily encountering
The process involves identifying the boot modules,
copying them to the selected partition
Then setting the system so that the selected partition is marked as active
and bootable,
and hiding the first partition so it is no longer considered useable by the
boot startup process
Then telling the system that the partition it is to boot from is called D,
regardless of the other partitions found
You may be able to make this work first time
You may be able to use the Fdisk application to get the system from the
status of a failed attempt back to the original booting status
If you are lucky the system may boot from the second partition, and offer
you the normal boot menu
( just remember there is no longer a bootable partition 0,0,0,0 within the
system )
At this point you may be able to safely delete the partition 0,0,0,0
and - then copy the OS partition from 0,0,0,1 to create a new partition
0,0,0,0,
and - then set that partition as visible, and hope it will boot and present
you with the normal menu
You will have to fix any directory specifications on the boot.ini entry for
0,0,0,0
Then - you can hide the partition 0,0,0,1 and see if the system will boot
from 0,0,0,0
and if so, then you can start adjusting all the shortcuts and other
application entries that refer to the files and applications as being on 'D'
But - is it really worth all that risk and effort ???
As Carl says,
the best way to get the system to run from C: is a re-install
JimB
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