Existing bootloader safe?

[Spartanicus]

I'm a bit nervous about using the nLite customized w2k CD to install to my 2 partition machine with currently W98 on c: and another w2k installation on d: I'm looking to replace my current W98 install with w2k (via a fresh install), after that fresh install XP on my d: partition.

With the w2k GUI setup I get a warning that I can't upgrade W98 to w2k due to multiple OS's being installed, this assures me that it has recognized my multi boot config and will probably preserve the MS bootloader. I don't get that warning with the nLite generated w2k CD, and it occured to me that should my bootloader get removed I wouldn't know how to get out of that pickle.

Any reassurences that my bootloader will be safe?

[jaclaz]

Any reassurences that my bootloader will be safe?

NO,

but you should ALREADY have another alternative way to boot your system, like a floppy made along thiese instructions:

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm

AND a backup of the data.

jaclaz