Bootmagic and MaxtBlast 4

[Paul]

Hi,

My computer has 2 drives. On drive C, I have had Win98 for years with
lots of programs, etc. Awhile ago, I added a second harddrive, Drive
D, which is a 200GB Maxtor drive, and I had to use MaxBlast 4 with
it...only 127 GBs of the drive is available, because the drive is too
large.

I want a dual boot setup with Win98 and XP, so I partitioned Drice C
with Partition Magic, and then added XP to the new hidden primary
partition.

All is good, except that when I try to install BootMagic so I can dual
boot, it says I can't install BootMagic because of DiskManager, which
I assume came from MaxBlast 4.

Any easy solutions?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Richard Urban]

Many Win98 era computers can not see the larger drives .

You need the maxblast4 boot overlay so that the computer bios can access the
200 gig drive. You can not rid yourself of that condition unless the maker
of your M/B has an updated bios that will natively see the complete drive.

I suggest you upgrade your computer or get a new one. The other option is to
use a 120 gig drive as maximum size.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[LVTravel]

A work around on this problem may be the purchase of an PCI IDE controller
card (about $20-30 available at many computer supply places) and plug in
your 200 GB drive as a "primary master" to the new controller card. The
onboard bios of the new card will allow XP to see the entire size of the
drive and Win 98 may also be able to see it if it is formatted as a FAT 32
drive. To keep it simple for 98, I would partition the new drive as a 120
GB and a 80 GB partition which will allow you to definitely use it for both
OSs..Windows XP won't format as a FAT 32 drive larger than 32 GB so you
would need to use the Win 98 boot.

With this setup, you could get rid of the Maxblast software and partition
the new drive with the Maxtor setup program and format to FAT 32, or
possibly use the FDISK and then FORMAT commands in DOS once the drive is
physically installed.

Hope this helps, let us know.

 

[Paul]

Thanks very much for the replies.

Hmmm, so close and yet so far. Looks like the easiest solution for now
is going to have to be forgetting about the whole XP dual boot thing,
as these other options would open up other cans of worms (no availble
slot for a PCI card for example).

Here's a question...when I make the XP partition active (using
Partition Magic), XP has an option to either boot XP, or the other
"unidentified" OS....but when i click on the unidentified one, it just
hangs... how come? If only it would boot the Win98 OS,, then all would
be well, and I'd be good to go....

Thanks.