XP/98 Dual boot problem

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Timothy Daniels said:
Yup, that's what I thought I read the first time. So again I ask
the not-so-trivial question: What do you mean by "Make sure
it goes to drive C:"? How does one do that? Do you fill in a
blank in a dialog box that the installer asks "What do you want
the OS to call this partition?" Or what? Why don't you want to
answer my question. I'm not trying to trick you. Since the
partition doesn't have a name when the installer encounters it,
there must be a name assigned at some point, and I'm asking
who picks the name and how is that choice indicated by the
user?
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The WinXP installation process gives you a choice of
partitions/drives where WinXP should go.
And why is Win98 in an Extended partition any better protected
than Win98 in a Primary partition?
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This is not a "protection" issue but a Win9x restriction: Windows98
does not like more than one primary partition on a disk. It gets
confused.
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
The WinXP installation process gives you a choice of
partitions/drives where WinXP should go.
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And is the answer to the installer the letter name or the
number of the partition? (Sorry, don't have a WinXP CD
at the moment to test it for myself.)

This is not a "protection" issue but a Win9x restriction:
Windows98 does not like more than one primary partition
on a disk. It gets confused.
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OK, thanks. I didn't know that.

*TimDaniels*
 
Does your motherboard support Windows 98? If the motherboard chipset
has no IDE port, and the IDE port is on a chip such as a JMicron
controller, then no Windows 98 support exists.
 
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