Where have my windows os gone?

Question

I had two operating systems installed on the D & E drives. My C drive became corrupted and had to be replaced. My system then refused to boot. I then installed win xp on c so I could boot, however my other two versions of windows where not available as boot options, even in the startup settings. How do I boot to my other OS?

Answer 1

You should be able to re-enable your other operating systems by editting the boot.ini file. See this Microsoft Support page for further details. http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=289022

Answer 2

if your other operating systems were older than xp they would automatically disappear as when you dual boot you have to install the oldest first,but if you have 98 on the computer,and then re-install xp,you will lose 98 due to a different boot process,i found this out when first trying to install multiple operating systems
i would format your hard drive,use f.disk and create a partition and install your operating systems from scratch(remember..oldest first),i put 98 on d:drive and then xp on c:drive,allthough i once made 4 partitions and managed to install ,98,me,xp all on one hard drive,to do this i installed xp first,used disk management to split d:drive into 3,formated them all,then using the appropriate start up disks i installed 98 on e:drive...millenium on d:drive and windows xp on c:drive leaving f:drive for downloads ect
if you need any start up disks go to http://www.bootdisk.com/,you will find every start up disc you will need,and loads more
if you can get nero burning software you can copy your older operating system discs into boot discs,using the bootable disk option,for example,inset your 98 disc and pick make bootable cd-rom,and this will turn your os discs into bootable versions
if you use these along with the downloaded startup disks you should have no problem
good luck,and let me know if you manage to re-install everything

Answer 3

If you had formatted your drive, or use Partition Magic or similar softwares, the other versions will go. Just use a single version. Its simple and convenient and less burden on your poor system.

Answer 4

mane 1 of other drives the c drive and it will boot from there
or on boot up[ push and hold f8 till startup screen comes up then under boot order switch c drive to d drive and good to go

Answer 5

you should get another pc and only have 1 system on each

although you are able to put more than 1 system, when pc crashes (like yours did) this is what happens (you end up with an os failure)

Answer 6

u just right click to yuor computer and in properties menu click advance then go to system start up and recovery and in settings there is colume for default os put the names of other os there