Hey, sorry for long wait... I know this reply / thread is a bit old but please let me add this...
The Win98 drive had the bootloader on it, or atleast some of it. And upon attempting to boot 2000 by itself, I get the dreaded NT-error:
NT18 BOOT FAILURE
you mean:
NTLDR is missing.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart.
or something?
Ugh, Dual-Booting back in the days is not what it is today. :(
For the record, I never had any problems dual-booting my Thinkpad laptop (circa 1994) between PC-DOS 7 and OS/2 for a while. At least until I realized that OS/2 was gobbling up a lot of space and I hardly ever booted into it, at which point I deleted it :P
Lastly, regardless of what operating systems you're dealing with, when you go to create a dual-boot system, you should always have the disks for both.
you mean:
NTLDR is missing.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart.
or something?
For the record, I never had any problems dual-booting my Thinkpad laptop (circa 1994) between PC-DOS 7 and OS/2 for a while. At least until I realized that OS/2 was gobbling up a lot of space and I hardly ever booted into it, at which point I deleted it :P
Lastly, regardless of what operating systems you're dealing with, when you go to create a dual-boot system, you should always have the disks for both.
Indeed I do, I have the Windows 2000 RTM disk, and the 98 Bootable cd...
But, I do not have the patience (or feeling) to reinstall 98 or 2000, both have important files that keep them running (The IDE driver and Floppy + Sata drivers)... So I don't feel like reinstalling these Oses... Took me forever just to try to configure the old PC right just to run 2k without Driver issues...
Then I finally replaced the PC and took the drive with it... and this is what I get?
Also, not NTLDR is missing message...
EDIT: Actually, upon force-booting 98 I do get: NTLDR is missing message...
But not on Windows 2000... I'm not sure why it displays something different.
I mean I tried searching ALL over the web, but I didn't find anything!! ;(
I'm not sure why, it just says something like: NT18 BOOT FAILURE
or NT** something ending with "... BOOT FAILURE"
It doesn't give me the Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart. thing...
I've really never seen this before, I suppose this has something to do with the bootloader??
I actually have really no idea about this error or whatever... Never seen this on any of my other PCs, must be a Windows 2000 thing? Doesn't happen on XP...
And if I try to boot back into '98 it shows me the loading screen, then I get a bSOD. (BLACK screen of death; DOS Style).