Installing Win98/ME after XP

[Guest]

I was wondering if the following is a possible solution to installing 98 on
computer that already has XP installed. (If you have two hard drives handy)

Install an empty (FAT32) drive as the primary master drive, and change the
drive(NTFS) with XP on it, to a primary slave. Then install 98 on the primary
master (C. Then somehow do a re-install or in-place upgrade of window XP,
with should now be D:.

Would you have to use Fdisk to change which partion is "active"?

Would the re-install process just re-write the files to get the dual boot
happening?

thanks

Ben

 

[RonK]

Have a look here:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I was wondering if the following is a possible solution to installing
98 on computer that already has XP installed. (If you have two hard
drives handy)

Install an empty (FAT32) drive as the primary master drive, and
change the drive(NTFS) with XP on it, to a primary slave. Then
install 98 on the primary master (C. Then somehow do a re-install
or in-place upgrade of window XP, with should now be D:.

Would you have to use Fdisk to change which partion is "active"?

Would the re-install process just re-write the files to get the dual
boot happening?

thanks

Ben

That will not work, the boot files must be on the first active drive, and in
this case it would be C and XP would probably be D. All your registry
setting would be pointing to the wrrong location.
You would need to use a third party boot manager application.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
Boot manager Links
BootIT NG from Terabyte
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
BootMagic that ships with PartitionMagic
http://www.powerquest.com/

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