Re: Windows 98 and Windows XP
From: Luca Fabbri (LucaFabbri_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/01/05
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:57:03 -0800
The first problem is that Win98 is not able to see the SCSI disk; so if I
want to proceed with the installation, Do I have to load DOS SCSI disk
drivers before proceeding ?
Thank you a lot...
"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
> "Luca Fabbri" wrote:
> > I have the necessity to install Windows 98 and Windows XP.
> > My computer has 2 fisical disks:
> > a. Primary disk is SATA
> > b. Secondary disk is SCSI
> > Can I install Windows XP into (a) and Windows 98 into (b) ?!?
> > How ?!? What are the steps ?
>
>
> If you have the time to experiment, you can install each OS
> into its own hard drive by having the other HD disconnected
> during the installation. This is just a normal single-HD installation
> procedure done on 2 HDs. By re-setting the hard drive boot
> order in the BIOS before each boot-up, you can control which
> HD gets control from the BIOS. The big unknown is "what does
> the Win98 system do about the WinXP file structure?" It can't
> display an NTFS file structure, so will it complain and shutdown,
> will it complain and just not display it, or will it just ignore it?
> I suspect that it will just ignore it, but I don't really know.
> If you try this, please report your results.
>
> The advantage of having OSes on separate drives, of course,
> is that you don't have to use any multibooting software - either that
> which is built into WinXP or from a 3rd party - and you don't have to
> purchase and learn how to use a software virtual machine.
>
> *TimDaniels*
>
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