Fix MBR

[Tom Thomas]

INstalled Win98SE on C: Drive..........WinXp on D: Drive...........

Reinstalled Win98SE........Therefore The dual boot option is Gone.

How to Bring this Dual boot option back without Reinstalling WinXp.

 

[QwertyManiac]

simple... boot with XP disc, enter recovery console, run the fixboot command and you are done...

 

[amitgg]

boot from xp cd. go to repair mode... and then .... command fixboot

 

[samrulez]

u can fixboot or just make a new boot.ini file and replace it with the existing one....but 'fixboot' is lot more easy and safe....

 

[Ramakrishnan]

what is the difference between "fixboot" and "fixmbr"?

 

[Tom Thomas]

i tried what u people said but that's not working.
something else pls.

 

[JGuru]

Yes if you format C: drive , XP files boot.ini will be gone!! Now the only option is to
reinstall XP since the formatting C drive has deleted the XP files, and it's boot loader which was stored in the MBR.

 

[dOm1naTOr]

Ok. Do as follows:
first make all hidden files nd system files visible.(to do so open my computer/tools/folder options/view/and check boxes
show hidden files nd folders
and uncheck: hide protected operating system files
apply ok

hope u got only one hdd

go to c: nd locate the file boot.ini nd open it
just below the line:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft windows"......(somethin)
add the line exactly as follows or copy paste it:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="My Windows XP Pro" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect