W98 XP dual Boot

[gy]

I have just installed a new disk with XP on it as a FAT32. It sees the
other disk with W98 on it. Which If I boot on its own sees the XP disk
also.

When I installed it I was never given the option of a dual boat.

How do I fix this.

I keep reading bits about scan configurations and boot repairs,
however how do I access these files.

Thanks

GY

 

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-----Original Message-----
I have just installed a new disk with XP on it as a FAT32. It sees the
other disk with W98 on it. Which If I boot on its own sees the XP disk
also.

When I installed it I was never given the option of a dual boat.

How do I fix this.

I keep reading bits about scan configurations and boot repairs,
however how do I access these files.

Thanks

GY
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I have this setup and this is how I did it

I had a 60Gig Hard Drive - Parallel ATA

I used the windows 98 startup disk (floppy) to partition
the drive in two parts one was 20Gig and the other was
40Gig

I formatted the 20 Gig Partition in FAT32 and left the
other partition blank for now

I installed Windows 98 on the FAT32 partition

I then installed Windows XP on the other partition (Make
sure you change the first boot device in the BIOS to the
CD-ROM) When you boot from the Windows XP Disk it will
detect the other operating system installed and allow you
to create a dual boot.

I chose to make the other partition NTFS because it is
more secure for Windows XP. One note with this, you Can
see the windows 98 partition from XP but you cant see the
XP partition from windows 98

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If WinXP is already installed:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

Otherwise:

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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