4oh4
February 4th, 2002, 00:31
I just installed v4.05 on a win2k partition and rebooted when prompted. Now my machine automatically restarts itself halfway through the bootup process. During the installation I selected "manual" for the softice load method, if that helps at all. At the bootmenu (dual boot win2k/98se) I've hit F8 and tried every option, but the system still restarts itself. Then the same thing happened when trying to boot into 98. Finally after booting to a cmd prompt and removing the line in my autoexec.bat that loads winice I finally was able to boot into 98. Now that's insane, because how could installing softice on a 2k partition affect anything on my 98 partition? Unless somehow the softice installer installed something on the 98 partition, but that doesn't make any sense.
Can someone tell me how to undue whatever the problem is on the win2k softice install? There's a ton of work that isn't backed up and I can't see the ntfs partition from my fat32 partition.
edit:
I was just thinking that I probably didn't explain my question well enough. The problem is that I don't understand the win2k bootup process like I do the 98 one. There's no autoexec.bat or config.sys. So if I can't so much as boot into a win2k command prompt, how can I go about uninstalling softice or troubleshoot the problem? Is there an application that will allow me to access files on an ntfs partition from a fat32 one?
Can someone tell me how to undue whatever the problem is on the win2k softice install? There's a ton of work that isn't backed up and I can't see the ntfs partition from my fat32 partition.
edit:
I was just thinking that I probably didn't explain my question well enough. The problem is that I don't understand the win2k bootup process like I do the 98 one. There's no autoexec.bat or config.sys. So if I can't so much as boot into a win2k command prompt, how can I go about uninstalling softice or troubleshoot the problem? Is there an application that will allow me to access files on an ntfs partition from a fat32 one?