Steven, It could be that the initial part of your boot process - the bit that looks for the boot.ini and associated files so you get to select which OS to run - is the win98 version. Being win98 level software it would not recognise, and process a NTFS partition, so the startup process would not be able to find the files needed to continue with the OS selection process.
Additionally, to boot from drive 1 with no drive 0 - you would need to have the drive configured to be the only drive on that connection, and to have a Primary, Visible, Bootable partition on it. and - in that partition, you would need the boot.ini, and associated files to let you select the OS (if there is only the 1 possibility it assumes that is the one to use so doesn't bother to ask you which one) I suspect that if you installed XP as the only OS it would then fix the NTFS boot problem , JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 3:29 PM Subject: formatting os w/ xp - problem solved > To all who responded with advice I appreciated it. > I discovered in my dual boot system that you can have both w98 & xp > working. In my case w98 was drive 0 and xp drive 1. If I disconneted > drive 0 drive 1 could not boot. If I removed drive 1 similar > situation, and in each case I adjusted the bios appropriately. I > found a web site which created a boot disk which provided the missing > files to allow me to boot to disk 1 when disk 0 did not work. > I eventually was able through disk management to reinitialize drive > 0, and install XP on it. When I installed it as an NTFS partition it > would not run, regardless if XP formatted it or Partition Magic did. > When installed as FAT32 it boots and runs. > Now I just need to get the maxblast overlay installed to be able to > see all of the drive. > So other than not getting full use of the drives size it does work. > Thanks > Steve > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
