NT/98, did I loose my dual boot? Help please.

[Dane]

I have been running a two partition 98/NT dual boot for several months now with very few problems. My 98 install recently became unstable (well more unstable) and I wished to reinstall using SE. Since this is my first dual boot system I consulted a friend who said I could format c:\ (the fat16, 98 partition), reinstall 98 and everything would procede as normal. I did just that. Now my computer boots directly to 98 on startup. I remember now that there was a boot file which would run on startup and provide the option of booting to NT, NT-VGA, or 98. Can someone tell me, is there someway to recreate that file, or if not is there ANY way to avoid reinstalling NT? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dane

[flikserv]

If you have your 3 NT installation disks, boot from them and select to repair the NT installation (press R.) Then choose to "repair boot files" ONLY, on the next screen - deselect the other 3 choices. If you have an Emergency Repair Disk - use it, if you don't - you'll have to do without. You should now get your dual boot back. Leave you NT CD in the drive during this procedure.

If you don't have the 3 installation disks, boot from the NT CD (you may have to change the startup order in your BIOS so the CD goes first) then follow the same procedure as above.

[Dane]

Thank you for you help but I'm sorry to report that the repair disk, which I have managed to loose, is required when I do this process. It give you the options of using the repair disk or searching for the NT 4 install. When I tell it to search it can't find it and asks for the repair disk again. I am getting that sinking feeling.

Dane