Have WinXP but want Win98 as well

[louloizides]

I have Windows XP on a computer but I have some apps that run better
under Win 98. Obviously, when installing Win XP over Win 98 setting up
a dual boot is easy. Is it possible to go the other way around? I was
thinking that maybe I could go and install Win 98 on the computer, then
go and repair the original Win XP installation to get the dual boot
working. Otherwise, maybe there's a 3rd party dual boot I can use. Any
ideas? Has anyone done this before?

 

[R. McCarty]

Dual-Booting is a pain. Why not just set your applications to run
in Windows Compatibility Mode for Windows 98 ?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have Windows XP on a computer but I have some apps that run better
under Win 98. Obviously, when installing Win XP over Win 98 setting up
a dual boot is easy. Is it possible to go the other way around? I was
thinking that maybe I could go and install Win 98 on the computer, then
go and repair the original Win XP installation to get the dual boot
working. Otherwise, maybe there's a 3rd party dual boot I can use. Any
ideas? Has anyone done this before?

Installing Win98 after WinXP can be almost as easy as when
you do it the other way round. It all depends on the disk
partitions you have. How many do you have, what's where,
and what type are they (FAT32? NTFS?).

 

[louloizides]

This software won't work in compatibility mode. Plus, this is an
embedded PC and for some reason I can only get ACPI to work under Win
98 which is important because I need to reassign some IRQs. That was
surprising to me, but whenever I try to force an ACPI HAL through the
Win XP installation, the installation will hang when it says "starting
Windows".

I kept my partition FAT32 in case I needed to do something like this in
the future. I found this article just now while searching through some
groups: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm. Maybe I'll
give it a shot, unless anyone knows any easier ways (or really good,
free 3rd party boot managers).

 

[louloizides]

Google groups is really screwing up today. I responded to this message
hours ago and nothing was posted. I'll try again -

I found this in another posting:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

I'm gonna give it a shot. I kept my partition FAT32 in case I had to
get Win98 back on there at some point (I figured that I could always
convert it to NTFS later on). I want to keep everything on one
partition.

If any good, free boot managers exist that anyone has used let me know.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Google groups is really screwing up today. I responded to this message
hours ago and nothing was posted. I'll try again -

I found this in another posting:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

I'm gonna give it a shot. I kept my partition FAT32 in case I had to
get Win98 back on there at some point (I figured that I could always
convert it to NTFS later on). I want to keep everything on one
partition.

If any good, free boot managers exist that anyone has used let me know.

XOSL is an exellent free boot manager.

 

[Jonny]

Running XP Home, ME, and 98SE. Using a 3rd party boot manager called system
commander (vcom.com).
None of the OSes ever "see" each other as all are hidden from one another.
There is no dependency on a common boot partition as in Windows dual boot
option. All OSes are completely independent in this fashion.

Shared data between the OSes is by means of a FAT32 logical drive on the
same hard drive. All the OSes can "see" this drive.

Careful planning of each OSes potential use, and consequential hard drive
space partition considerations are very important. Figure out the partition
size on this basis, double it for slack and swapfile slop, then double it
again for defrag space requirements and any oversights made in the original
plan.

A common visible partition sized to accomodate all your personal data should
also be considered with ample space.

With this data, the hard drive should have the minimum capacity to hold all
these partitions.

 

[louloizides]

Actually, I followed the link I posted above
(http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm.) and it worked well.
The only thing the instructions don't mention is that you have to run
fixboot in the recovery console, which is available when you boot the
Windows XP Installation CD.