Partitioning question,Please!

[Jerry]

Assuming your motherboard supports UDMA 66 or 100 then using the older 33
with the faster 66 or 100 will cause the newer one to run at the slower
speed. Since the 33 is only a measly 6Gb you will be better off not using
it. Two weeks ago a friend bought a 120Gb ATA 100 drive for $80.

Also, to do a dual-boot setup the procedure is to install the older
operating system first, then XP.

 

[t.cruise]

Install 98/Me After XP is Installed

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm


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[Alon Brodski]

Hello world!

I have a 6 GB HD with one active partition on it NTFS 5 -Win XP Pro.
Now I want to install Win98SE as well...what's better and why...to use a 3rd
party software like Partition Magic or to add an additional HD and to format
it into FAT32? And in case I should buy a new HD...and it would be UDMA 66
or 100 and I configure it as a slave on primary IDE channel (where I have my
current UDMA/33 HD as a master)...Would my current HD affect perfomance of a
faster new HD,since they would be both on the same channel?

Thanks in advance,

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a 6 GB HD with one active partition on it NTFS 5 -Win XP Pro.
Now I want to install Win98SE as well...what's better and why...to use a 3rd
party software like Partition Magic or to add an additional HD and to format
it into FAT32?

You will have at least to make another partition, as 98 will not run
from NTFS. 6GB is not exactly generous for XP, and I doubt if you could
reduce it to make adequate room for a 98 partition without severe
congestion. So you need another disk.

It is getting very difficult to get a new HD below about 40GB - what I
did on a similar disk configuration was to get a 40GB, clone the XP onto
it, then use the small disk for the 98, repartitioning it to be FAT 32,
I use BootIT NG for the partitioning, cloning and boot management
Partition Magic will do it too; perhaps more conveniently, but more
expensively. You may though find that going past 32 GB needs an
upgrade to the BIOS of the machine, so try to check that point first

And in case I should buy a new HD...and it would be UDMA 66
or 100 and I configure it as a slave on primary IDE channel (where I have my
current UDMA/33 HD as a master)...Would my current HD affect perfomance of a
faster new HD,since they would be both on the same channel?

Provided the motherboard and controllers are not antique, the two will
normally share a channel without affecting each other. There are
occasions where disks from different makers don't like sharing; if so it
would be better to get a second cable and have the two drives as masters
one on each (with CD as a slave)

 

[Alex Nichol]

Assuming your motherboard supports UDMA 66 or 100 then using the older 33
with the faster 66 or 100 will cause the newer one to run at the slower
speed.

No it won't. That applied to old IDE - half way modern EIDE (from say
the last ten years, and it must be if it knows about UDMA at all) does
not suffer from this.

 

[Alon Brodski]

Hey!

May be I could just add a 2nd HD as an extension to my old one (using
dynamic volumes option).New HD would be partitioned as FAT32.So the question
is how to istall Win98 on it and dual boot issue.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

 

[t.cruise]

How do I install Windows® 98/Me after I've installed XP?

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

May be I could just add a 2nd HD as an extension to my old one (using
dynamic volumes option)

Don't complicate things with dynamic disks. That is a way to make two
separate disks look like one partition, which is the opposite of what
you need: Two different OSes should be in separate physical partitions.
Use one disk for each - but it would be best with the XP on the bigger
one.