"Pegasus" wrote:
> "baxter" wrote:
>> My PC was configure to boot from Win98 and XP.
>> I install XP after Win 98 was installed. I am able to
>> select to boot from Win98 or XP. Now my C drive
>> has crash and I am not able to boot. I disconnect
>> C drive and reconnect D(with XP) as primary disk
>> but still cannot boot. Can anyone help? I don't want
>> to reinstall b'cos I have a lot program installed. I think
>> some config or exe files can be modified so I can
>> boot straight from D drive with WinXP. I don't need
>> Win98 anymore.
>
> There are a couple of ways to do this:
>
> a) Install another disk as a place holder for the dead
> drive C:, then make it bootable.
>
> b) Make drive D: bootable and make some changes
> to the the registry.
>
> Option a) is nice and easy. Option b) is much harder
> unless the machine is networked. If you provide the
> necessary details then someone will give you more
> detailed instructions.


If there is room for another small partition on the
"D: drive", it could be made the "C: partition" and
used to boot the "D: partition". The small partition
would have to be a primary partition and it would
have to be marked "active" (by using WinXP's
Disk Management utility) in order to receive
control from the MBR. It would also need a proper
boot sector and the files boot.ini, ntldr, and
ntdetect.com . (What utility would do that, Pegasus?)
The single default entry in the boot.ini file would have
to point to the "D: partition". That modification
could be done manually by using Notepad or by
Run/msconfig .

If there is no space for a small partition on the
"D: drive", you could use a utility called Partition Magic
(now sold by Symantec) to shrink the "D: partition"
to make room for the new small partition.

*TimDaniels*