dual booting with win98

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Derek

Has anybody tried dual booting win98 with vista? I tried it but it wasn't
successful, even though I put vista on a separate (NTFS formatted) partition
the option boot to win98 wouldn't show up at the start. I've ditched vista
till anybody else has found a way. Had to use partition magic to reclaim the
'Vista' drive so my programs would work again in win98.
What vista did was to change drive letters i.e. C: to D:, D: to C: so that
win98 was no longer on the boot drive.
One positive was although all my other partitions (up to J:) were still
FAT32 they could be seen when in Vista.

Derek
 
Hi Derek,

Use a third party boot manager like BootIT NG from terabyteunlimited.com, as
Vista will always call its system volume C: and change the other one. With
the boot manager, you can hide each of the OS installations from the other
and have each place their boot files (io.sys for Win98) on their
installation volumes. Then Win98 will still see itself as C:.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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