help with dual boot loader

i had win98 and win2k dual booting ok, the i installed WinME beta 2149 over win98, still dual boot worked ok. whilst in winME beta i formatted the drive that Win2Kpro was on, (that was real stupid) i restarted the computer and the dual boot menu was still their so i booted into dos and tried to re-install win2kpro ...

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i had win98 and win2k dual booting ok, the i installed WinME beta 2149 over
win98, still dual boot worked ok. whilst in winME beta i formatted the
drive that Win2Kpro was on, (that was real stupid) i restarted the computer
and the dual boot menu was still their so i booted into dos and tried to
re-install win2kpro but it won't let me, something about the windows boot
loader is incorrect or wrong.
 
firstly how do i get rid of the dual boot menu so that I only boot into
winME and nothing else, as if i only have 1 OS?
 
then how do i go about re-installing win2kpro?
 
i know about the files that win2kpro put's on the boot hard drive boot.ini,
ntldr, ntdetect etc.....
 
thanks
 
Dave

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fdisk c: fixes ur mbr and u can reinstall thru the autoplay feature on the win2k cd from win9x

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could also be fdisk /mbr, we have an argument on that one here..just be careful if ya enter fdisk =)

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Jezuz! i need to get my head checked
u ofcourse need to boot off a floppy to use this lil` trick

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my OS : Win89 + Win2k
after reinstalling Win89....
my problem! : Where´s my f***ing Bootmanager??!!
....should we have 2 reinstall win2k 2 get this damn bootmanager........
 
suggestions?....n1?....
 
thx

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no u don't have to, just replace your backed up boot.ini file with the one on your harddrive now.
 
That is assuming u have backed it up?

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Thnx 4 the hint!!
but the worst of all is that i don´t saved boot.ini aargh... but now i know the right way...=]
 
greetings from my mom
 
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