Re: XP and Windows SE dual boot

From: The Truth (truth_at_Elkestr.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:34:47 -0500

Thanks to all for the info., and suggestions. You've make my decision much
easier.

Truth\

"André Gulliksen" <andre.gulliksen@start.no> wrote in message
news:34dcdcF49q8cvU1@individual.net...
> The Truth wrote:
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction of a how-to article on
> > setting up a XP/W98se dual boot? Also, are there any pitfalls I
> > should know about before hand. My current OS is the XP Home Edition.
>
> As others have mentioned, installing 98SE after XP can cause problems. But
> it should be doable. The major pitfalls are (in order): Repartitioning,
> which can cause havoc on your system if you do not know what you are doing
> and/or if you are unlucky (remember backups!), and boot loaders.
>
> Windows 98 SE needs its own FAT32 partition. So you will need to have some
> free space on one of your hard drives. This partition also needs to be a
> primary partition rather than a logical partition, and it will also have
to
> be set to bootable from a suitable partition editor. If you can delete any
> of your current partitions, or if you have free space, then this should be
> no problem. If you need to resize any of your current partitions you will
> need third party software, such as Partition Magic or Ghost.
>
> The 98SE installer requires that the hard drive it is going to be
installed
> to is your primary master. This means that if your drive is _not_ then you
> will have to physically rewire your drives during installation. Also, to
> actually be able to run 98SE from anything but the primary master you will
> need a boot loader that can logically swap the internal drives. LILO can
do
> this, other boot loaders I can not vouch for.
>
> Even if you only wish to use the normal NT boot loader (which should be
fine
> for most cases), remember that the 98SE installation will overwrite any
MBR
> with it's own. To correct this you can use the XP installation CD, enter
the
> recovery console and type the command 'fixmbr'. Then you should alter your
> c:\boot.ini to include your Windows 98SE installation. Of course, you can
> use any other boot loader if you wish.
>
>

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