Dual boot problem

I had Windows 7 and Windows 98 in a dual boot. But then 98 was ~censored~ up and I had to reinstall. There was 10 Gb FAT32 partition and 28 Gb NTFS. I format them and installed 98 to FAT32 and 7 to NTFS, but got no boot menu, so I was not able to use 98.
Then I tried again, format the whole drive to FAT32 during 98 setup. and used Norton Partition Magic to make FAT32 partition smaller, so I had that 10 Gb again for 98. I left the free space unallocated and made new partition to there during Windows 7 setup, but still no boot menu.
What am I doing wrong? Should I have formatted the new partition when installing 7? I didn’t do it, but the installation still went fine, just no boot menu.
Answer #1
You can use an app. called Easy BCD to make the boot menu as shown here…
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8790/dual-boot-your-pre-installed-windows-7-computer-with-xp/
It is also possible to use the Windows 7 install disk to do a boot repair ,which again will make a boot menu..
Answer #2
That program helped me to get menu. But I can’t see it. Screen is black and monitor says “Out of range”. I know it is there as I can boot 98 by pressing the down arrow and Enter. Any other solutions for this than changing video card?
Answer #3
do you see the boot screen before the menu/black screen ?
you try turning the monitor off & back on when the “menu” is on screen ?
what type of cable you use to connect the PC to the monitor ?
if you try safe mode duz that menu show ?
Answer #4
edwoodweb replied: do you see the boot screen before the menu/black screen ?
you try turning the monitor off & back on when the "menu" is on screen ?
Yes I can see that boot screen saying “Award modular BIOS”
what type of cable you use to connect the PC to the monitor ?
VGA cable.
if you try safe mode duz that menu show ?
I don’t know what you mean. In the boot menu when selecting OS, you can get to safe mode by pressing F8, but for me after boot screen it goes “Out of range” and next what I see is Windows 7 welcome screen (or 98 loading depending on what I press).
Answer #5
Have a look Here.
http://thpc.info/dual/win7/tripleboot_win7+9x+ubuntu_bcd_on_win7.html
Answer #6
VGA cable.
got a DVI cable to try ?
Yes I can see that boot screen saying "Award modular BIOS"
hitting F8 repeatedly just after this screen will bring up the safe mode menu directly bypassing the boot menu
Answer #7
I can’t see the safe mode menu. Still “Out of range”. Neither video card or monitor support DVI.
Answer #8
I booted to safe mode fine. Kept hitting F8 after turning on computer and without seeing menu pressed down arrow a couple of times. Removed drivers, but after restart Windows installed them back. So again to safe mode, this time I manually set the standard VGA driver to use. Now I couldn’t see even the welcome screen, even if after Windows setup it had been ok with that! Strange
Once more safe mode to restore correct drivers. Then tried this:
http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/113730-need-help-getting-windows-7-boot-screen-640-x-480-60hz.html
By following these tips I got it to show Windows Vista style loading screen instead of error message! But still no boot menu. I think the problem is that my video card does not support more than 640×480 and 60 Hz before the right drivers are loaded.
Answer #9
Did you try using the windows 7 dvd to make the boot menu ?
The windows boot menu is in plain old black and white vga so it should not need any drivers.
Answer #10
Not until now as I got it with EasyBCD. But boot repair didn’t help at all, just removed that loading screen again.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-desktop/vista-boot-menu-resolution/c6e7bb73-81bf-4ad5-8df0-fc9036236afa?tab=MoreHelp
What could those third-party softwares be?
Answer #11
What could those third-party softwares be?
google “boot manager software”
boot managers used to be very popular until OS’s started allowing other OS’s to be booted from their built-in managers
Answer #12
Nel replied:
The windows boot menu is in plain old black and white vga so it should not need any drivers.
Isn’t the loading screen plain old VGA, just in color? Anyway, while googling I heard that someone who had similar problem plugged in CRT, it showed 87 Hz when boot menu was on the screen. So if the bootmgr refresh rate cannot be decreaced, my display will be out of range. I’ve tried other LCD, no luck. CRT or new video card is maybe a solution, but I think I’ll let it be like this. I’m afraid of screwing my installations by trying to replace boot manager.