Win98SE & Win2K Dual Boot Problem

[justchillinout]

I've recently had a situation where Norton Antivirus stopped a change to my MBR. However, since then I can't boot to Win2K. The OS selection screen doesn't appear anymore and I think it has to do with the MBR being messed with.

Any suggestions on how to get back the OS selection screen at bootup?

[chuck]

Did you disable antivirus first? which is what you should have done.I guess you have it on the win 2000 drive. I would uninstall it and see what it does. I had it on my d rive which was win xp and it saw all drives no problem,but alas it was only a trail version and now I will have to buy it.

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[justchillinout]

Well I fixed the problem. I did a re-install / repair of Win2K and it seemed to do the trick. I still don't know what caused the change in the MBR, but I'm up and running again. I've read on other threads that having the OS's on seperate physical drives (which is the case for me)makes having two OS's unstable. This could be the case for me. Either way, I'm off to the races (for now).

[hobbes2112]

I have several OSes spanned over drives....I have had no more stability issues this way, than single disk setups.

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[justchillinout]

Yeah it seems the problem might be stemming from Norton. When in Win98 it sees the MBR has changed due to the new startup routine and tells me that the MBR has been changed and do I want to change it back to what it was. I think this is what is going on. Doesn't appear to have anything to do with the multi-drive / multi-OS thing.

Thanks for the help.