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Dual boot
That might have messed up the Windows partition and made it now non-bootable. Try booting from a DOS diskette that contains fdisk.exe and see if you can see the Windows partition and/or make it active (ie bootable). If you can see that partition, and don't mind reinstalling FBSD or deleting the boot manager,

boot into DOS?
<p>The file systems used don't matter to IBM's <br>Boot Manager either - although it does need <br>a little 2 MB partition of its own. </html> See: http://www.911networks.com > Windows NT > Configuration > How to add Windows 98 to a machine with already Windows NT Workstation without reinstalling everything?

Vista MBR vs. XP MBR
FreeBSD's boot manager will then manage to boot Win95/98 and - FreeBSD. If you install Windows 95/98 second, it will boorishly + <para>Install Windows 2000/XP first, If you install Windows 2000/XP second, it will boorishly overwrite your boot manager without even asking. If that happens, see the next section.

Windows 2000 Boot Manager
I want to install Windows 2000 on the second partition but dont know how. I have been told I need a boot manager but my experiences with these have not been good, typically resulting in me having to re-install my main OS which I really dont want to do. Does anyone know of a good Boot Manager for XP? or a fix for my

FreeBSD boot manager
Why when I boot into windows xppro does it recognize the partition it is installed on as D: and when I boot to Vista Home Basic and see the same partition that Installed Vista from image to c: drive and used shrink drive frome disk manager to create partition or unallocated space then from an ghost image file

Fuel Pricing?
Stephen Petrowski bsa2...@adelphia.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup go to the disk manager and change the drive letters in vista then format the empty .... That should put boot manager on your active partition. Some have had to run it several times, so run at least 4 times before posting back.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Tim Smith t...@halcyon.com comp os linux setup Boot Manager is extremely picky. I *was* using it to boot Linux, but it decided to stop letting me do that. Here's how that came about: My setup is: IDE: 5.1 gig Maxtor, partitioned like this: small primary for Boot Manager 1 gig primary for Windows 95 3.3 gig extended

Multiple OS - boot manager
Doug Knox MS-MVP dk...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp general microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support y recommend the use of a 3rd party boot manager then. BootIt Next Generation, www.bootitng.com is my personal choice. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/9x Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes

Windows Boot Manager issue
Darryl Sperber sper...@airmail.net comp os os2 setup misc On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:14:33 GMT, "Jim Davie" <jimda...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: Hi, I'm an old OS/2 user that is returning to OS/2, and when I last attempted to install Warp 4 on my system alongside Windows XP Pro, XP would disable the boot manager partition

Can't get a CD to Install
As expected, Windows created the windows.old directory with all my old files. I recovered them and then used disk cleanup to remove the old windows install. All is working well. The only issue that remains is that I now have a phantom Windows XP Recovery Console entry in the Windows Boot Manager.

A decent boot manager for XP?
It will have to be a logical drive (in an extended partition) because Windows does not handle multiple primary partitions. You will not need a boot manager because the Windows startup can be interrupted to boot to a command prompt only. If your application requires an earlier version of DOS then you will need

Windows Boot Manager - how to force the BIOS calls for display
Actually I am using the bcdedit, and the parameter which allows to display the windows boot menu by SOL is called "bootems"and must be set to "yes" on the Windows Boot Manager Object. But anyway I would like to ask if anyone knows how this works internally. It looks like this "bootems" does not force the Windows

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
philo ph...@plazaearth.com alt os windows2000 ok, so he missed your question...so i'll comment here i don't think the win2k boot manager can handle hidden partitions.... you will probably need a boot manager such as Boot It.

Boot manager location
Since boot manager can't boot, the system is unbootable, you can't even start Windows 2000. This is not the same as the previous known problem that the Windows Many use Boot Manager to boot into BeOS, OS/2, Linux, or Winxx as it is a darn good system. -- h„rad ‘ngravv†d "Windows has detected a mouse movement,

OS/2 Bootmanager protection from MS Win?
You can't have amulti-boot system without having something in the mbr to enable it to find the selected or default operating system. So, you can put a boot manager into a primary partition and its mbr will replace the windows mbr or you can put a boot manager into the mbr itself and it will replace the windows mbr

Creating BeOS partition to coexist with Windows 2000 help....
The two Windows setups are completely independent of each other. To run Windows 3.x, you just boot under DOS first. The following procedure lets you add a minimal Win95 always seems to mingle; a pure DOS-boot appears to be impossible, for example. Does Win95 have a boot manager with which I can really choose

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Windows NT topics. My problem is : I installed DOS 6.2 over a Dual Boot installation of Windows NT 3.1 and DOS 6.0. Now NT's boot manager with the choice of booting either DOS or NT does not display at boot time any longer, the system rather boots straight into DOS. How can I get NT's boot manager back without

Install Windows 98 alongside a previously installed OS?
I again boot Windows using floppy, run bootinst, and in desperation ask it to install the boot manager on BOTH disks. Reboot. The boot manager prompts: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 2 I press F5 and the boot manager prompts again: F1 DOS F5 Disk 2 Neither of the above choices boots DOS/Windows but goes into a weird boot

Dual Boot configuration Problem
Does Windows 95 have a bootmanager to let you run two operating systems on the same computer ? And if not, are there any shareware programs that can perform such a task ? Wim Van Paepegem w...@mecanic.rug.ac.be No. Partition Magic has a boot manager and there are several shareware and at least one freeware programs

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David T. Johnson djohn...@isomedia.com comp os os2 advocacy Norloff's "OS/2 Warp News and Rumors" page at http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/ had more information on the Win2K/boot manager issue: "A number of people have reported that Windows 2000 release candidate 3, as well as Windows 2000, have a problem that they