Re: Dual Booting with Win98SE

You know, another, better solution for you might be to image that windows 98 disk, then load Virtual PC (free download) on your XP machine.

In Virtual PC, create a new windows 98 virtual machine, then ghost your current windows 98 image to the Virtual PC one. I think you will have to actually install windows 98 first, then image it just to set the size of the vritual machine and to initialize it, but after that, I suspect you could move the clone to it quite easily.

You might still be wise to load into safemode the first type and clear the enum keys, then restart, but because the Virtual PC hardware is so generic, you probably don't need to do that.

After that, you can run your VirtualPC is full screen mode and it would approximate your old 98 machine....you just need to have enough ram to pull this off (at least a gb will make you much happier)





"gerryf" <gerryf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:447F5574-9CE6-4BEA-83EB-962B5CCA0C9D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I to, have got it to work, but not in a long time....if your system is newer, you may not be able to find drivers.

The real problem with this scenario is that you would be putting windows 98 on the second partition.

Windows 98 can only boot from a first partition.

You would need to image your win98 partition, wipe out your current XP system, re-image your current system to win98, then install XP to the second partition. XP can run from a second partition, but needs to install some boot files to the first partition.


"M.I.5¾" <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4811ad2c$1_1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23jygruqpIHA.4292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is it possible to use a second partition on my XP's system drive for Win98SE, but not go to all the trouble of actually installing it there, but instead, simply use a partition copy made from my other W98SE computer (preferably without having to somehow get into its registry and delete the enum devices key, first).

That way I wouldn't have to reinstall all my applications (ideally).

The idea here being: when I first boot up into Win98SE, windows will look for new drivers and stuff (and I'd have to remove some unknown devices, I expect), but ideally I wouldn't have to reinstall all my old applications - IF this could work.

I know it may be a long shot, but it is even possible?

Your Win98 installation from another PC *might* work, but at the very least, you would most likely have to perform a repair install and you would certainly have to install motherboard chipset drivers. I have known people get installations like this working, but more likely, you will have to make a fresh install.

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