Lost Dual boot menu

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Jayne Larsen

Good day,

I had to reformat C drive and reinstall windows 98 SE. Windows XP resides on
a separate drive (D:).
Before I did the format I copied the ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini and
bootsect.dos onto a floppy (which does give me the dual boot menu). How do I
go about restoring the MBR so that I do not have to use a floppy disk.
And another ??, if the floppy disk works, how come placing the files back in
the root of C: does not work?
I went to windows xp and ran the installation disk and was not given an
option to repair the installation. I also used a win98 boot disk accessed
the cd rom and it will not run from dos. I"m a wee bit lost.

Thank you in advance
Have a great evening
Jayne
 
See my web site, www.dougknox.com and go to Win XP Tips

For Win9x/Me: Install 98/Me after XP is Installed.
For Windows 2000: Install Windows 2000 after XP is installed.

Follow the instructions for repairing the XP Boot loader.
 
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