Dual boot with W98

[GY]

I am having problems with my W98 hard drive, and want to
upgrade to XP and plan a new hard drive.

The plan is to have a dual boot with XP on the new drive
and W98 on the old one.

I will put the new drive in the system, set the bios and
dip switches to boot from it.

Install XP as a dual boot.

I then want to format the W98 drive and re-install W98.

However I think this will overwrite some XP files,

What can I do to get my system to work as required.

 

[CS]

I am having problems with my W98 hard drive, and want to
upgrade to XP and plan a new hard drive.

The plan is to have a dual boot with XP on the new drive
and W98 on the old one.

I will put the new drive in the system, set the bios and
dip switches to boot from it.

Install XP as a dual boot.

I then want to format the W98 drive and re-install W98.

However I think this will overwrite some XP files,

What can I do to get my system to work as required.

The easy way is to put the new hard drive in the machine and install
Win98 to it. Then install XP and place it on a new partition. XP
will setup a dual boot for you. No overwriting of the boot sector
will take place that way.

In other words: Your new hard drive = Drive C: Win98, Drive D: XP.
Boot menu and master boot records all on Drive C: You must use
FAT-32 for Drive C. Drive D can be either FAT-32 or NTFS.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

If you do this, your primary drive will have to be FAT32 formatted. Install
98 first, and install it to the second drive, then install XP on the primary
drive. If your primary drive will be NTFS formatted, you'll need a 3rd
party boot manager like BootIt Next Generation www.bootitng.com. Otherwise,
install 98 on the old drive, as the boot drive, then install XP on the new
drive (installed as a slave drive). Then the second drive can be formatted
NTFS, since it won't matte to 98 booting up.