I have Windows XP Home edition installed on the D: drive. For a reason which doesn't matter here, I wanted to install Windows 98 as well. It wouldn't allow me to choose on which partition to install, however. Instead, it warned me that it might have to "deactivate" my existing OS. I clicked "YES" to this. Then it proceeded to tell me that it couldn't install at all on my NTFS-formatted partitions and would have to re-format them (to FAT I guess). I didn't want it do this at all, so I aborted installation (so Win98 was never installed).
Unfortunately, it did disable my WinXP. Meaning that the computer simply wouldn't boot from the hard drive, telling me that some boot record was missing (it was the only OS I had installed). I got out my WinXP CD and made a new installation of it on the H drive. So far so good, now it would boot, but naturally, it doesn't read my original settings. Looking at my hard drive, I can see that all of my files are still there, including the original Windows installation on the D drive. It just won't boot from it.
Can someone help me? How do I "reactivate" my Windows installation, so it'll show up in the boot menu, and so I can run it? Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, it did disable my WinXP. Meaning that the computer simply wouldn't boot from the hard drive, telling me that some boot record was missing (it was the only OS I had installed). I got out my WinXP CD and made a new installation of it on the H drive. So far so good, now it would boot, but naturally, it doesn't read my original settings. Looking at my hard drive, I can see that all of my files are still there, including the original Windows installation on the D drive. It just won't boot from it.
Can someone help me? How do I "reactivate" my Windows installation, so it'll show up in the boot menu, and so I can run it? Thanks in advance.