Win98 and WinXP dual system boot menu recovery

The book said that Win 98 and Win XP can be very compatible, that is to say, anyone can install first, so I installed the XP home version on the original WIN98 system. The specific installation location is the original WIN98 system in C drive. The new XP Home Edition installed in the D drive is very smooth, there is no incompatibility problem (sure enough, WIN98 and XP can coexist very well) After the installation is successful, there is a dual boot menu, you can choose which system to enter.

Unfortunately, when I start the dual boot menu, I press the ESC key. As a result, I can't see the dual boot menu when I boot up, and I enter WIN98 directly.

Busy and flip books, but the information is limited, only found "C drive XP, D drive WIN98 dual system dual boot menu recovery" no way, had to change the BOOT.INI file.

Go to C: Find BOOT under the root directory. INI file open to see

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=C:WINDOWS

[operating systems]

C:="Microsoft Windows 98"

It can be seen that XP's startup configuration is gone. Learn to change the method described in the article found in [operating systems]

(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect restart after saving, double boot menu appears, but when prompted to enter Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, the system prompts "/WINNT The following hal.dll file is damaged or missing. "Unable to enter the XP system and think it is a hal.dll file error. After entering WIN98, copy other people's hal.dll to D:WINDOWWINDOWSSYSTEM32 to overwrite the original "damaged or lost" file. After the situation is still the same. Because I am not familiar with the setting syntax of BOOT.INI, I have to install the D drive and install XP!

After the system is installed, the dual boot menu is restored and can be used normally, but I still don't feel convinced, so I open C:BOOT.INI

again to see

[boot Loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

C:="Microsoft Windows 98"

No I also understand that the default settings are not correct. When the dual boot menu is booted to XP, the hal.dll file is found in the C drive, which is naturally impossible to find, and the error is normal.