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Hi,

I did a really stupid thing. I installed Win XP as an upgrade on a Win98
disc in a seperate folder. For some reason the Win XP thought that my hard
disc was corrupted and refused progress any further. When I booted again, I
found that I could dual boot and my Win 98 system worked fine. Stupidly, I
moved the boot.ini file to another directory so now I can't boot at all.
When I boot into repair mode, the command line console won't allow me to
copy the boot.ini files back to the root directory. I keep getting the
message "access denied".

Is there any way I can trick the machine into starting up DOS in Win98?
I've tried using a Win98 recovery disc but it just boots into Win XP anyway.

Any help appreciated, not looking forward to a clean install of Win 98

thanks,

Kevin

try with a start up floppy 98 and change the hidde attribute from boot.ini.
This one is made during install so you shan't find it on the cd.
cheers, Hans

Quote:> Hi,

> I did a really stupid thing. I installed Win XP as an upgrade on a Win98
> disc in a seperate folder. For some reason the Win XP thought that my hard
> disc was corrupted and refused progress any further. When I booted again,
I
> found that I could dual boot and my Win 98 system worked fine. Stupidly, I
> moved the boot.ini file to another directory so now I can't boot at all.
> When I boot into repair mode, the command line console won't allow me to
> copy the boot.ini files back to the root directory. I keep getting the
> message "access denied".

> Is there any way I can trick the machine into starting up DOS in Win98?
> I've tried using a Win98 recovery disc but it just boots into Win XP
anyway.

> Any help appreciated, not looking forward to a clean install of Win 98

> thanks,

> Kevin