Can\'t Boot System Normally

[tyde]

Just got a laptop.  The C: drive was partitioned into two: now into C and D drives.  C: had Win98.  I installed WinXP on D.  Everything was great.  I started up my system, and it would ask me which OS I wanted to boot.

I,then, formatted C.  I wanted to have a clean disk.  But C was my system disk.  So I made C my system/boot disk through MS-DOS. (I now think I should\'ve changed my boot properties in BIOS.)

Now, when I start my system, it\'s Win98... but only in Command-prompt.  There\'s only 1 file on C: -- command.com

So, my question is:  How do I get to my D drive and WinXP?  I know for a fact that WinXP still exists on my D drive.

Also, I can\'t recover my original Win98 OS... my notebook didn\'t come with recovery CDs.  But, I know there\'s someway around this!  It\'s only a computer after all!

P.S. I can\'t get access to BIOS either.  I tried extracting BIOS from a floppy, but it said it was corrupted.

Any ideas?

[rdc]

Did you try to boot from a:
with a bootdisk in a , containg boot.ini ,ntldr and ntdetect.com
your boot .ini looking like this :
[Boot Loader]
Default = C:
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)Windows=\"Microsoft Windows xp Professional\" /fastdetect
C:= \"Microsoft Windows 98\"
If it doesn\'t function , delete the line default c: from th boat ini , You also can copy  boot.ini ,ntldr and ntdetect.com to C
Good luck
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