Re: Dualbooting question.

Hi, Mike.

You may have a problem. Not insoluble, but requiring more steps.

> My question is... all I've read online says the fat32 drive must be
> drive C for some reason.

This is backwards. ;^} Drive C: must be FAT32 (or FAT16). The reason is
that the boot process always starts with Drive C:, even if Win98 (or any
other Windows version) is installed on Drive D: or E: - or X: on the second
HD. And Win9x/ME cannot even SEE an NTFS volume, much less boot from one.

As M. Rajesh said, if Drive C: is already FAT32, just install Win98 on E:,
then Repair WinXP to set up the dual-boot. But if Drive C: is NTFS, you
will have to use Partition Magic to convert your Drive C: to FAT32 first.
(Nothing from MS will revert from NTFS to FAT32 without a complete
reformat.)

There are third-party solutions, such as BootItNG, but I don't know anything
about those.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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"Mike Barnard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all.
>
> My AMD 1700+ currently has two HDD's. Drive C (60 gig) has XP home on
> it and after a recent reformat it has just about reached the stage
> where everything is how I like it. Drive D (30 gig) has all my data,
> pictures, docs etc.
>
> I've unearthed a load of older PC games from the loft so I want to
> dualboot to run Win98se. I've used partition magic to divide drive C
> into two, so I now have a new FAT 32 logical drive E. I have not
> tried installing win98 yet; so little time some days...
>
> My question is... all I've read online says the fat32 drive must be
> drive C for some reason. Can I dualboot as it is or must I swap XP
> and 98?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards from Mike Barnard
> South Coast, UK.