Installing dual operating on same drive - win 98/win xp

[Guest]

I am a newbie - please hel

My drive C:\ is currently running Win 98
I intend to install Win XP on the drive C:\ so that I can have two operating system on the same drive. This will allow me to choose either WIN 98 or WIN XP when I boot up

Can this be done
How? and without removing the Win 98
Thank yo

 

[mario]

no this cant be done you will mess everything up that way
xp will over write all of 98 you need to have two
partitions on your hard drive or to hard drives

-----Original Message-----
I am a newbie - please help

My drive C:\ is currently running Win 98.
I intend to install Win XP on the drive C:\ so that I

can have two operating system on the same drive. This
will allow me to choose either WIN 98 or WIN XP when I
boot up.

 

[Michael Stevens]

I am a newbie - please help

My drive C:\ is currently running Win 98.
I intend to install Win XP on the drive C:\ so that I can have two
operating system on the same drive. This will allow me to choose
either WIN 98 or WIN XP when I boot up.

Can this be done?
How? and without removing the Win 98.
Thank you

It can be done, but you do not want to do it. Get partitioning software and
resize the current 98 partition and create a new partition for XP or leave
the space empty. XP setup will format the empty space for XP to install to.
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[ppoatt]

Jeff,
What size is your HD?
You will need to set a partition behind your 98 OS.
If you have a large enough HD set the first partition,for
98, no less than 8gig.
"BootIt NG" is a good partitioning program. You can
download their "Shareware" and use that. It will need to
be unzipped onto a floppy to work.
You will then need to boot computer to floppy and set
your partitions. The program is fairly easy to use.
Be sure to scan and defrag HD before setting a partition.
I can help you more if I knew how big your HD is.
Good Luck!

-----Original Message-----
I am a newbie - please help

My drive C:\ is currently running Win 98.
I intend to install Win XP on the drive C:\ so that I can

have two operating system on the same drive. This will
allow me to choose either WIN 98 or WIN XP when I boot up.

 

[Michael Stevens]

total capacity for drive c: = 11.2 GB
used space for drive c: = 2.17 GB
free space for drive c: = 9.05 GB

please advice step b step how to partition my hard drive and install
my win xp pro. thanks!

The partitioning software comes with user guides. As in my previous post,
you will need to resize the current partition, leaving unformatted space for
XP to use for installing. After resizing the partition, you can use the step
by step in the link below.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The simplest way I've found to dual boot between Win9x and WinXP
would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows:

C: Primary FAT32 Win9x/Legacy Apps
D: Extended NTFS WinXP/Modern Apps

Adjust the partition sizes according to your actual hard drive(s)
size and the amount of space you'd like to allocate to each OS and its
applications.

Create the partitions using Win9x's FDISK so you can enable large
disk support (FAT32). (No need for 3rd party partitioning
utilities/boot managers and their frequent complications.)

Install Win9x first, being sure to select "C:\Windows" (or
D:\Windows, if you prefer) when asked for the default Windows
directory. When you subsequently install WinXP, be sure to specify
"D:\Winnt" (or "D:\Windows," "C:\Winnt" as referred/applicable) when
asked for the default Windows directory, to place it in the other
partition. The WinXP installation routine will automatically set up a
Multi-boot menu for you. The default settings for this menu can be
readily edited from within WinXP. NOTE: If you elect to place Win98
on the "D:" drive, you'll _have_ to leave the "C:" drive as FAT32.

This method can be adapted to using 2 physical hard drives by
placing the boot partition (C:, which still must be FAT32) and either
of the operating systems on the Primary Master hard drive, and the
second operating system on the second hard drive.

It is also possible to have a 3rd partition for shared
applications, but it would be necessary for such a partition to be
formatted in the common file format (FAT32). The applications would
also have to be installed into each OS (to ensure proper system file
placement and registry updates), one at a time, but the bulk of the
program files could be located on this common partition. I do not,
however, actually recommend doing this as, if you were to uninstall
such an application from one OS, you may not be able to gracefully
uninstall it from the second OS, having already deleted crucial
installation data during the first uninstall action.

Just about everything you need to know (URLs may wrap):

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/2/10.ASP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/multiboot.asp

Bruce Chambers
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[Guest]

Will the recommended partitioning software destroy the win 98 which is currently in my primary drive?I hope not..

 

[ppoatt]

It should not hurt the present OS if you make the first
partition large enough like 3 or 4 gig. Like I said before
....be sure to do a scan disk and defrag before attempting
to partition. This will,mostly, ensure that all data is at
the front of the drive. You will not want to partition a
drive with some fragmented data stored at the back of
drive.
A 12 gig HD is kind of small for a dualboot system.
It is very likely to work but I see you may find later on
that you will have a space problem. Once you get XP up and
running for you will probly have used another 2 to 3gig.
So now you are using half the HD capacity.
You can pick up a new 40gig HD between 60 to 100 dollars.
Leave the 98 on the 12gig. and Install XP on the 40gig.
The system will still see a dual OS when booting.
Then you won't need to partition the drive.
Win98SE uses Fat32,XP uses NTFS. NTFS is best for XP.
Win98 will not see the XP this way.BUT...XP can see 98 and
may screw with 98. What can I say...XP is a bully.
With the size of the HD you have now...my advice is to get
a larger HD.
You will end up doing it anyway in the close future.
Believe me.

-----Original Message-----
Will the recommended partitioning software destroy the

win 98 which is currently in my primary drive?I hope not..

 

[Please reply to newsgroup.]

PartitionMagic creates and resizes partitions without erasing the
affected partitions.

 

[Ron Sommer]

Backup important data.
Your Win 98 installation should be OK.
You will have to use a boot manager to install XP with Win 98 on the drive.
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Ron Sommer

Will the recommended partitioning software destroy the win 98 which is

currently in my primary drive?I hope not..

 

[Ron Sommer]

Correction.
A boot manager will not be needed with Win 98 installed.
You will have to choose dual boot installation.
A boot manager would be needed if trying to install Win 98 with XP
installed.