David Fiori Jr
Member
I am deploying a new multi-boot system with WIndows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 which needs to copy an existing XP partition from another machine because Microsoft support for XP no longer brings new installs up to date. It is also helpful to copy another existing Windows 98 partition as well from the same source machine as the amount of work required to configure the Windows 98 environment I use is excessive.
At first all the operating systems were installed from the original install discs and had everything working, and working with the nice consolidated menu EasyBCD provides. I installed '98, XP, Vista & 7 and they all worked.
The trouble started as I tried to substitute disc images for XP and Windows 98. At the moment I can start up Windows 98 after having done an FDISK /MBR and SYS C: from the Windows 98 startup floppy disk. I was also able to make a floppy boot disk that bootstraps the XP installation so I can use XP. I have EasyBCD on that XP partition.
Running EasyBCD resulted in a system that cannot be booted at all with an error message along the lines of "Operating system not found".
Thank you for your help,
David Fiori, Jr.
215-584-2214 (cell)
At first all the operating systems were installed from the original install discs and had everything working, and working with the nice consolidated menu EasyBCD provides. I installed '98, XP, Vista & 7 and they all worked.
The trouble started as I tried to substitute disc images for XP and Windows 98. At the moment I can start up Windows 98 after having done an FDISK /MBR and SYS C: from the Windows 98 startup floppy disk. I was also able to make a floppy boot disk that bootstraps the XP installation so I can use XP. I have EasyBCD on that XP partition.
Running EasyBCD resulted in a system that cannot be booted at all with an error message along the lines of "Operating system not found".
Thank you for your help,
David Fiori, Jr.
215-584-2214 (cell)