Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98

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From: Andreas Hofmann
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 00:00

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Mike Kooiker wrote:

> I have
> tried many things. One was to put a parititon magic boot partition in the
> IDE and use that to select WIN 98 and NT. It would select 98 fine but when i
> selected NT I just got a blinking cursor. I have also tried system
> commmander (on the IDE) which will work one cycle through then when I
> reboot, I get the "NONE FOUND [ACTIVE PARTITION] ON HDD" error again.

Have you selected the primary partition of NT into the boot manager? If you
select the NTFS partition this is not the place where the boot files are
located. It should work if you select the (may be small) FAT boot partition into
the boot managers menu.

Andreas

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From: Andreas Hofmann <AndreasHofmann@usa.net>
Subject: Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98
Date: 1998/08/05
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