Re: XP/98 Dual boot problem

See below.

"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You might as well point out that the Win98 (and any other
Windows OS) can reside in a Primary partition or an Extended
partition, but that an Extended partition cannot contain boot
files.
An extended partition (or rather a logical drive) can contain
boot files (same as it can contain any other files) the Windows
boot process will not use them.

Windows in an Extended partition, then, must always be
loaded by boot files residing in another (Primary) partition - in
this case, it will be the Primary partition that will contain the
WinXP.
Yes.

I believe you once said that you put a 2nd OS into an
Extended partition just out of habit, not for any strategic purpose.
I do it all the time in order to achieve full OS separation in
a multi-booting environment. However, you need a proper
boot manager to do this successfully. Windows cannot do
it by itself.

BTW, why do you say "Make sure it goes to drive C:"? Do
explicitly tell the installer to make the new OS call its partition
"C:", or will the installer automatically do that when it sees no
other Primary partition?
The OP must avoid installing WinXP on drive D: because
this is where Win98 resides. The installer will most likely
do this automatically but one never knows . . .

*TimDaniels*


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
- Create an extended partition.
- Create a 2 GByte logical drive for Win98.
- Install Win98 from your CD to the 2 GByte drive.
- Install WinXP from within Win98. Make sure it goes
to drive C:.



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