Hiya, i wont keep ya long i promise!

I want to dual boot XP pro and 98se on 2 hard drives. currently got 1
hard drive as XP on NTFS. now i realise ya cant have drive c as NTFS
if i want to do this. SO. Can i simply change that drive to slave, get
another drive and install win98 on that and make that master? sounds
okay to me, tho i havent tried it yet. in theory couldnt i
run.....fixboot.exe i think i read and tell it to dual boot.

Or am i wrong and probably need to do a fresh install of 98se on the
master, a fresh xp install on the slave where it'll automatically
detect the other system and allow me to dual boot at my pleasure? coz
im hoping theres a quicker way! haha

Thanks a lot for any advice,
Ian.

Hello

See link

How to Multiple Boot Win XP, Win2000, Win4.0 NT, Win95,98,ME,98SE,MS-DOS
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q217210

Alvin




Ian wrote:

> Hiya, i wont keep ya long i promise!
>
> I want to dual boot XP pro and 98se on 2 hard drives. currently got 1
> hard drive as XP on NTFS. now i realise ya cant have drive c as NTFS
> if i want to do this. SO. Can i simply change that drive to slave, get
> another drive and install win98 on that and make that master? sounds
> okay to me, tho i havent tried it yet. in theory couldnt i
> run.....fixboot.exe i think i read and tell it to dual boot.
>
> Or am i wrong and probably need to do a fresh install of 98se on the
> master, a fresh xp install on the slave where it'll automatically
> detect the other system and allow me to dual boot at my pleasure? coz
> im hoping theres a quicker way! haha
>
> Thanks a lot for any advice,
> Ian.

Yeah, you should be ok with that. So long as the boot.ini file points to XP on the secondary disk, then XP should mind which disk it's on - whether it's primary or secondary, and Win98 won't mind either cos it won't notice it's XP, as it's ntfs