hard drive partition?? dual boot

DREEMTHEEF

DREEMTHEEF

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I have 3 hard drives in my computer, with a dual boot, allowing me to choose either win98 or winxp. The OS's are on seperate hard drives.

A friend of mine wants a similar set up, to beable to choose between win98 or winxp. He only has the one hard drive.
Therefore if I partition his hard drive and install win98 on one of the partitions, with winXP on the other partition, will the computer let him choose which OS to use at start up or can this only be done with having 2 seperate hard drives in the computer?

Thanks in advance.

....DreeM :)
 
roadworker

roadworker

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It can be done on the same harddisk....I'm running ME,win2k and XP on 1 harddisk....Just install win98 as 1st os if you wanna boot with NTLoader,otherwise you need a 3th party bootmanager...:)
 
DREEMTHEEF

DREEMTHEEF

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roadworker said:
It can be done on the same harddisk....I'm running ME,win2k and XP on 1 harddisk....Just install win98 as 1st os if you wanna boot with NTLoader,otherwise you need a 3th party bootmanager...:)
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Cheers RW :)

....DreeM :)
 
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john baxter

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YES ,just make sure that windows 98 is on the c drive and xp on any other partition that you care to put it on, xp will make the bootloader and hey presto dual boot, boot from the cd when you put xp in and choose the partition you want ,remebber that you can choose the boot sequence and time in the system properties:D
 
DREEMTHEEF

DREEMTHEEF

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NTFS - FAT32 ???

Thanks for the feedback so far...

One thing I forgot to mention and ask about.

The XP partition is NTFS and I will of course want the 98 partition to be FAT32.......will this cause any problems??

On my system I did the installations from scratch but on my friends system he has one of these annoying restore CD's and not an XP CD, so I want to try and leave the XP partition as it is.
What I plan on doing is leaving XP on the C: partition, leaving the annoying D: partition with the back up data and making an E: partition with win98 on it. If I have to use a boot manager then that's okay.

Cheers again, much appreciated.

As for your comments John, yep, that's just what I've got on my system and the boot menu came up on its own. I have 98 on the C: partition and XP on the E: partition, works just fine.

....DreeM :)
 
roadworker

roadworker

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Is his whole disk formatted as NTFS?
If so,easiest would be stuff like partition Magic or System Commander to create his new partition and converting to fat 32......and you need indeed a bootmanager...
 
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scarecrow

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banzibaby said:
Win98 won't be able 2 read the NTFS XP partition.
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That is absolutely great. Active partitions should be treated as read-only by other installed OS'es, else disasters can come fairly easily.
 
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scarecrow

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The read/write edition should be used for recovery purposes only, and not for everyday IO. Please take notice of this warning in Sysinternals site:
Because the Windows 95/98 environment is different than that of Windows NT/2000/XP, the level of NTFS support that NTFS for Windows 98 provides is not equivalent to that provided on Windows NT/2000/XP. For example, NTFS for Windows 98 does not enforce the Windows NT/2000 security model. All files and directories are accessible, regardless of their security permissions settings. In addition, NTFS for Windows 98 is not compatible with Windows 2000's Encrypting file System (EFS). Any files encrypted using EFS will not be accessible under Windows 98 using NTFS for Windows 98.
What they actually forget to say is that storing large files in active NTFS partitions under Win98 may override/destroy encrypted files, or that it may do irreparable damage if the NTFS partition has boot-time loading filemanaging utilities like Ghost 2003, or Drive Image, or Diskeeper, or Drive Crypt, or... installed.
 
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