Dual Boot 98SE/XP Pro

[Brian Parkinson]

Hi,
I have two hard drives installed.
I have 98SE on drive C
I have another copy of 98SE on drive D
I want to maintain drive C as is and install XP Pro on drive D in a dual
boot situation so that I have a choice on boot up.
I want to do a clean install of XP on drive D. I can change the Bios to boot
from CD.
Questions: should I disconnect drive C and make drive D the primary drive
before installing XP or can I install XP on Drive D without altering my
current primary/slave configuration?
Should I clean drive D before installation or will XP setup do this for me?

I have the "steps to clean install of XP" by Michael Stevens but it is not
clear, hence my questions.
Appreciate your help.
Brian

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Do not disconnect the C: drive. Simply boot from the Windows XP
CD and make sure to select the option to format the D: drive
(preferably NTFS), then installation will begin.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Hi,
| I have two hard drives installed.
| I have 98SE on drive C
| I have another copy of 98SE on drive D
| I want to maintain drive C as is and install XP Pro on drive D in a dual
| boot situation so that I have a choice on boot up.
| I want to do a clean install of XP on drive D. I can change the Bios to boot
| from CD.
| Questions: should I disconnect drive C and make drive D the primary drive
| before installing XP or can I install XP on Drive D without altering my
| current primary/slave configuration?
| Should I clean drive D before installation or will XP setup do this for me?
|
| I have the "steps to clean install of XP" by Michael Stevens but it is not
| clear, hence my questions.
| Appreciate your help.
| Brian

 

[Brian Parkinson]

Carey,
Appreciate the prompt response ... sounds easier than I thought!

Brian

 

[Michael Stevens]

Carey,
Appreciate the prompt response ... sounds easier than I thought!

Brian

You will delete the partition first and then format it.

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[jameshanley39]

Based on what people seem to be recommending-

You can keep both drives in there as they are. Boot off the XP CD,
then it should list you both drives. (C and D). You need some
unallocated space on D. Win XP will show you if you have this. If you
have this, then you follow the instructions to install XP in that
unallocated space. It will create a logical partition there and format
it automatically and put Xp in there, and it will recognise win98 on D
and it should recognise it on C too.

(Obviously you don't want to format any existing partition. You only
want to create a partition in unallocated space and let the xp
installation format it).

The thing is though, I am not sure that this will work, because you
want to boot off the 'D' drive, which is not the primary master. And
you want the XP installation on D to recognise the Windows 98
installation on C. You could try booting off that drive - and it
will not longer be the D drive - sand it will probably work. Or you
could do the normal thing, and swap the drives around. Most people
boot off the primary master anyway, it makes more sense. It is not
very traditional to boot off the primary slave or secondary master and
load an operating system from the primary master.

 

[jameshanley39]

I thought he wants to keep 98 on the D drive. So he wnats to tell Xp
to install in unallocated space on D. Which will create a new partition
on the D drive and format that partition. if he formated 'the d drive'
then he'd lose everything.

 

[jameshanley39]

When you say 'clean install of XP on drive D' do you mean Run XP
alongside 98 on drive D. (as well as having 98 on C). Or do you
additonally mean 'remove 98 from D'.

Clean install of XP on D only means that you don't want to upgrade 98
on D. IT doesn't specify whether you want it deleted or not. My
responses assume that you don't want to delete it, since you don't
mention that you want it deleted.

 

[jameshanley39]

Forget that. Besides the fact that I think i'm wrong about the logical
partition (it probably creates a primary partition), I think I
misinterpreted your post. I should have 'read in' that you wanted Win
98 removed from D.

 

[jameshanley39]

forget that !! He didn't say he wanted 98 removed from D, so I
mistakenly thought he wanted to keep 98 on D too.

 

[Brian Parkinson]

James,
Thanks for your comments.
I want to delete everything on D and then install XP Pro.
I want to maintain 98SE on C since I have software which will not run on XP.
I understand that on boot up I will have a choice of which OS to run.
Regards, Brian