Re: Dual Boot

Gerry,

BootIt NG has been highly recommended by many MVPs, especially where you are dual booting Windows XP and Vista. As you can see from my post to Bogey Man, dual booting in the normal way between XP and Vista does have its problems in that, when booting to XP, all system restore points on the Vista partition are lost, which can cause numerous problems. The main two options to prevent this is using bitlocker (assuming you own a copy of vista business, enterprise or ultimate) or, alternatively using a third party boot manager such as BootIt NG.

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"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eVJBm2mtHHA.3588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
John

I agree you should install the oldest first if you are NOT using a third party
partitioning tool but using BootIt NG it is not neccessary. The video about
installing Windows 98 in the following link shows how much easier it can be:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html

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"John Barnett MVP" <freelanceit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eRH%23mdltHHA.4860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It isn't that simple, Andrew. With older versions of Windows the 'oldest' version has to be installed first followed by the next newest. In other words you need to install Windows 98 first on the C: partition, then XP on your next partition, presumably D or E.

Obviously, if you only have recovery disks for XP you are not going to be able to do this, because installing XP from the recovery disk will, effectively, wipe out the windows 98 installation which you would have installed on drive C:.

There is an option to install 98 after XP has been installed but it does require changing registry entries. Visit this site: http://www.dougknox.com/ Click the Win XP Tips option on the left of the screen. When this window opens look for the link 'Install 98/ME After XP is Installed' You should find it on the right of the screen near the 3rd from the top of the list.


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"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:23DFBB2C-B99F-4ACC-9683-5A7FC5C594F5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You would need to re-partition the hd,3rd party software would be needed.Or
purchase another hd,use as storage for xp & 98,and put 98 on it also....

"Thomas Frost" wrote:

My pc came preinstalled with xp home and came with the restore disks, is
there any way for me dual boot it with 98 on the same machine?







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