Dual Boot Operating Systems

[Guest]

Is there a way I can dual boot Windows XP and Windows 98. I want Windows 98
on the D:\ Drvie and Windows XP on the C;\ Drive. I have Windows XP installed
already but I can't get Winodws 98 to install.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How do I install Windows 98/Me after I've installed XP?
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

Multibooting with Windows XP: Introduction
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/multiboot.mspx

HOW TO: Create a Multiple-Boot System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306559&Product=winxp

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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| Is there a way I can dual boot Windows XP and Windows 98. I want Windows 98
| on the D:\ Drvie and Windows XP on the C;\ Drive. I have Windows XP installed
| already but I can't get Winodws 98 to install.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is there a way I can dual boot Windows XP and Windows 98. I want Windows 98
on the D:\ Drvie and Windows XP on the C;\ Drive. I have Windows XP installed
already but I can't get Winodws 98 to install.

If your current WinXP partition uses the FAT32 file system,
follow the links that Carey Frisch provided in his reply.

If it uses the NTFS file system, post again. Contrary to
what these links say, it is possible to install Win98 on
such a machine. However, you will need some third-party
tools plus a measure of patience to get things going.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Dual boot is not the only solution any more. You can now run any flavor of
Windows and almost all flavors of Linux in virtual machines right on your XP
desktop without any reboots or having to partition. You do have to have
more than 256mb of memory for some operating systems to work that way.

See: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
and: http://vpc.visualwin.com/

 

[Guest]

if I have no OS on the computer in other words starting from scratch, can I
tell Win98 to go onto D:\ drive and WinXP to C:\ drive. Thanks for your help.
Greatly Appreciated.

 

[Guest]

As I don't have a floppy drive drive on my laptop I tried creating a bootable
cd but it couldn't read a certain file on the floppy. I checked for errors.
Do I have use a startup disk for Installing Windows 98 onto the D:\ drive

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Dual booting on a laptop can get complicated. One of the things you
probably should not do is start from scratch with a laptop unless you have
some experience working with laptops. Neither XP nor Win98 will have all of
the non-standard drivers laptop manufacturers write for their proprietary
devices. You should verify that drivers exist for both operating systems
and then download them and burn them to a cd before making any changes.

Again, I would encourage you to look at Virtual PC 2004 which you can simply
install on Windows XP and then install Windows 98 into a virtual computer
under VPC. VPC is designed to get out of having to reboot, partition, and
so on. There is a 45-day free trial.