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To: belker who wrote (24124)	12/30/2001 2:34:48 PM
From: Matt Brown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

belker: I had about a 2 page reply to this. But something popped up on my screen and wiped the entire reply out. Dangit. Setup, first to make sure I understand. You have Win2k installed on drive D, but you wiped C and E recently. Correct? If so, read more. Briefly what I said; I think you are missing your boot.ini file on the C:\ drive. When your computer boots up (or tires), it is confused what partition to go to (C, D, E). And by default, it looks for this file in the C:\ drive. Try seeing if you have it. Boot up with your Win98 disk. Go to the C: drive. (type 'C:') List contents (type 'dir') See if you see a boot.ini there. If not, you need a file similar to this, named boot.ini placed in your C drive. [boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect It might need a little tweaking, to map it to the D drive. Probably, the partition(1) stuff to something like partition(2). This I am a little unsure about. I'd be curious to see if you have boot.ini there, though. If not, we'll try something else.