bootsect.dos from win98&XP needed

[Dominik]

Could anybody with win98 and XP (dualboot) send me bootsec.dos? only 512bytes

Thanks

dominoball@stonline.sk

[Dominik]

anybody???? don't be lazy,wanna install 98 today... :sleeping:

[Prasanth]

why you need the file?

[Dominik]

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Originally posted by prasanth

why you need the file?

Everybody who have this file know exactly why i need it... ;)

[CrooKed]

Where is it located and how can I copy it and send it.

I dualboot ME and XP you should be able to edit it...

[Dominik]

bootsect.dos is on active partition,so if you have your ME on C:, bootsect.dos should be there.

but bootsect.dos from ME won't work for me,and it isn't easy to edit it,i don't know what to change...

anyway,thank you

anybody with 98? :right:

[GrymmWolf]

Hell I could use that bootsect for ME/XP....that oughtta let me use my Win-ME hard drive as a slave off my Win-XP Hard drive....would it not....after editting of course!!:evil:

[Steven]

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Originally posted by Dominik

Could anybody with win98 and XP (dualboot) send me bootsec.dos? only 512bytes

Thanks

dominoball@stonline.sk

boot.ini ?

[Prasanth]

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Originally posted by xStainDx

boot.ini ?

nope "bootsec.dos"

its should be in c: if you have a 9x os

[Steven]

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Originally posted by prasanth

nope "bootsec.dos"

its should be in c: if you have a 9x os

if you're dual bootin XP and 98.. you need NTLDR and BOOT.INI

[thingsforjason]

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Originally posted by Dominik

Everybody who have this file know exactly why i need it... ;)

lol, i think a lot of people have that file and don' t have a clue really what it does. (like me) :)

but it sounds like you want to install windows 98 after windows xp...

http://www.winxpfix.com/page5.htm

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

[craybox]

you can create the file yourself, just boot using a 98 boot disk ( bootdisk.com) and run SYS c: from the floppy.

but you will have run a recovery from the cd to get back in

[Prasanth]

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Originally posted by thingsforjason

lol, i think a lot of people have that file and don' t have a clue really what it does. (like me) :)

but it sounds like you want to install windows 98 after windows xp...

http://www.winxpfix.com/page5.htm

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

thanks for the link :)

[Dominik]

Hey ppl,i'm not idiot,i have everything what a need,ntldr,FAT32 partition prepared,boot.ini.ONLY bootsect.dos is missing!

craybox - that won't work

meany replyes,but still don't have the file... :dead:

[PsyCX]

The file is a copy of the Windows 98 boot sector to allow XP to boot it. You can't just go ahead and edit a Windows Me one however it might work to use that one anyway as it probably just tells the PC to boot certain files.

However this file probably tells the system which partition the files it needs are on so it might not as it's inevitable their PC's config will be different.

You could try what craybox said or do the following:

You should find an entry in boot.ini saying "c:bootsect.dos=Microsoft Windows" or something. You can also recreate the file by extracting it from your Windows 98 partition using a DOS port of a Linux program called dd. Search for it on google and once you've downloaded it do this at a command prompt:

C:> dd if=/dev/hdxx of=c:bootsect.dos bs=512 count=1

Change the first 'x' to a, b, c or d, depending on whether your Windows 98 partition is on a hard drive Primary Master (a)/Primary Slave (b)/Secondary Master ©/Secondary Slave (d).

Change the second 'x' to a number 1-8 depending on which partition number your Windows 98 partition is on. If there's only one partition then then it will be '1'.

P.S. Give me your email address and I'll email it to you.