Duel boot issue: XP lost, only 98

I have been running my machine with XP home and Win98 duel booted, via
the XP install options.

All was well until today when I went into 98 to fetch something (I've done
this before w/o problem). Upon restart the XP menu choices were gone. It
only booted straight in Win98. I had run a virus check earlier in the day -
no problems.

All partitions are still there.

Any ideas how to get my XP back?

Any ideas how this might have happened, so that I do not repeat the
problem?

Thanks.

justin

 

Stick your XP CD in the drive and BOOT from it. Select REPAIR as the
option and it should restore your boot files.

Failing that you can find sites giving instructions to manually set up
Dual Boot but it a drag to do.

 

Yes. I can get to the REPAIR screen. But then it asks for "which
installation?", with a blank after. I tried entering "XP", but nothing
happened. Also tried the partition letter, still nothing.

Further thoughts?

Thanks.

justin

 

I am reluctant to comment further but the last time I had this, I
continued the install and put it over the existing one and it just did
a Refresh install.

On reboot everything was back to normal.

BUT knowing the odd way windows behaves, I cannot tell you to do that.
You may lose all data and not be very happy.

 

Howdy!

And above the question, did it list a "Windows XP" with a "1" in
front or behind it?

If so, then you pick "1".

What !I! would do is boot to the recovery console, then do a FIXBOOT
and a FIXMBR.

But that's me ...

RwP

 

Thanks to all. With some jiggering, I was able to recover.

justin