Dual Boot Windows 2000 and Ghost

1. Boot your machine from a Windows 98 boot disk or another boot disk with the sys.com utility.

2. At the DOS prompt type sys c:. This will destroy the Windows 2000 boot sector but we’ll repair it in the next step.

3. When the system transferred message is displayed, reboot with the Windows 2000 Install CD-ROM or the Windows 2000 Setup Disks.

4. When prompted press R to repair.

5. Press R again to use the Emergency Repair Process.

6. Select M for Manual Repair.

7. Deselect Inspect startup environment and Verify Windows 2000 system files. Then select Continue

8. Select L to locate the current Windows 2000 install location.

9. If the directory displayed press ENTER to fix the boot sector. The computer will reboot when the repair is complete. Remove the CD-ROM before the computer boots to it again.

10. Boot into Windows and use Notepad to edit boot.ini located in C:\.

11. Add a line at the end of the boot.ini file with something similar to c:\="Boot to Ghost backup" and save the file. If you want to change the amount of time that the boot menu is shown, change the line "timeout=30" to whatever number of seconds you like.

Make sure you copy the files you need to the hard drive such as ghost.exe and mouse.com.

You’ll now be able to choose whether to boot into Windows 2000 or DOS and you won’t need to put in a boot floppy to do it.

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