Re: Multi-Boot - XP on Master / 98SE on Slave?
From: Doug (Doug_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/10/04
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:01:02 -0700
Hi Kent,
I really appreciate this alternative suggestion. I was in fact troubled by having to keep XP as the Slave (D drive) and Win98 as the Master (C drive, or at least the HDD drive there with the boot loader). I was also wondering about doing something like you've suggested but you know, somehow I wasn't completely sure I could just tell the BIOS to boot from C or D but I'm sure after reading what you wrote that I can. I will check my BIOS. Any downside to using the BIOS? Strange, nobody has suggested it, as it seem so much easier and I can have XP as NTFS as I desire and still boot to 98's FAT32 when I want.
Also,if I follow your suggestion and temporarily install XP on the new HDD as the only drive, can I format it as NTFS and later using the recovery method add Win98 (Fat32) as a bootable choice from the slave drive since it's formated as Fat32 (assuming I will even want to do this if I can simply use the BIOS as a temorary measure until I have everything working with my system and software with XP)? Which OS would have to be Master and which Slave? Doesn't the loader have to be on a Fat32 drive in this case?
Thanks in advance Kent and to all - thank you for your helpful suggestions as they are all worth consideration.
Regards,
Doug
"Kent W. England [MVP]" wrote:
> Gerry wrote:
>
> > This will be rather simple since you have 98SE already
> > installed. Don't change your drive settings though. Keep
> > your 98SE as master and set the new drive as slave. Take
> > your Windows XP setup and start the setup routine from
> > windows 98. Just load the CD and the routine will start
> > up automatically. There will be an option during the
> > setup routine to either upgrade 98 or a clean install on
> > another partition or drive. Just select that option and
> > go from there. The system will create a file that will
> > load at the beginning so that you can select to boot into
> > 98 or XP. Good luck.
>
> I respectfully suggest an alternative approach. The difficulty with your
> suggestion is that you cannot remove the old win98 disk at any time in
> the future. You can wipe out win98 on that disk, but it will always be
> C: and XP will always be on D: with the boot loader on C:
>
> If you temporarily remove the win98 disk, install the new disk, install
> XP clean on that new disk, and then re-install the old win98 disk,
> you'll have two independent bootable drives and will be able to select
> the drive to boot from the BIOS.
>
> If you then want to modify the XP boot loader to boot win98 as a second
> option, you can boot the Recovery Console from the XP CD (first repair
> option) and run the command "bootcfg /rebuild" to add win98 to your boot
> menu.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>
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