dual boot winXP & Win 98?

[Guest]

I have win xp profesional on disc 'c'c can I put win 98
on seperate disc 'd'd and choose which system I want to
use on that day?

 

[Rob Schneider]

There are a number of articles on this published in Microsoft's
Knowledge Base. For example,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292580

Search the site for more, if this not good enough.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Yes, you can. However, as "C" is the current boot drive, if it is in NTFS
you cannot boot a Win98 system from it. If WinXP is in FAT32, you can add
the Win98 installation on "D" as a boot option (provided you installed Win98
as "D", if installed as "C" it will need to be reinstalled and then you will
have to repair the boot loader). If in NTFS, you will need either a boot
manager, or need to switch the BIOS boot order of the drives each time you
want to switch.

Boot Managers that can do this:

BootIT NG www.terabyteunlimited.com
Partition Magic www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic
Partition Commander http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html

Using the BIOS boot switch is free, but it gets to be a pain.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone