XP dual boot 98 on a different drive

[Simon Caldwell]

I have a new PC with XP Home installed. My old (now defunct) PC was
Windows 98.

I have taken the hard drive from my old machine and put it in my new
one. What I am aiming for is to be able to dual boot into either OS.
XP is on the C drive, 98 on the D drive.

I'm not bothered about it being a slick operation, I want to use XP
99% of the time with 98 only for one specific purpose. If it's
relevant, that purpose is to be able to use my Minolta Dimage Scan
Dual slide scanner, which apparently has a hardware incompatibility
with XP.

I have downloaded GAG and installed it on a floppy. Using this, I can
boot into Windows 98 by using the 'swap drives' option. At the start
of booting, I get an error that EMM386 cannot be loaded; on hitting
Enter, bootup continues and I'm into W98. However, I cannot use the
scanner as the system reports that SCSI driver is not working
correctly. I have re-installed this, but no difference.

So I'm now at a bit of a loss as to what to do next. Any suggestions
would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Simon

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You may do better to reinstall 98 on the second drive. See my web site,
www.dougknox.com and go to Win XP Tips

For Win9x/Me: Install 98/Me after XP is Installed.

You may also want to look into Boot It Next Generation, www.bootitng.com.
This program will allow you to easily choose between hard drives/OS's to
boot.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

This is incorrect, Paulo, as there is no BOOTSECT.DOS file for the XP Boot
loader to process. You can't simply tell it to boot from the second drive.

 

[Paulo]

You not need to reinstall win98, the only thing that you need is edit the
boot.ini file in the root of drive C, to put a line for win98. Some like
this:
{multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Windows="Microsoft Windows 98"},
without the brackets. then go to system properties - Start and recovery and
mark the option "Show the Operational Systems menu". then restart the
computer and you will see the option to boot from drive D. comments....