Anyone have experience w/dual boots?

[shoichi]

I've been running Win2k and decided to setup a dual boot with Win2k and Win98se. Since the primary drive (C has to be Fat16/32, I had to fdisk and format my drive. I have Win98se installed and running, but one of my partitions have been deleted, and now I have a 26g D drive, instead of a 13g D and 13g E drive. I'm having difficulty setting up a partition so I can convert and install Win2k on my D drive. Any ideas?

I'm going to format my D drive and see if I can't partition it, but I'm not really sure what to do outside of this.

 

[shoichi]

That smily face is supposed to be ( C : ).

Anyways, "Win2K and NT can create and recognize as many as four partitions on a basic disk: one extended partition and as many as three primary partitions. Win9x and MS-DOS can recognize only two partitions on a basic disk: one primary partition and one extended partition."

So...is it even possible to create three partitions if I'm dual booting Win98se and Win2k?

 

[TheProject]

I've done a dual boot machine before, but I wasn't happy with it. I did 98SE and 2K, and neither was particularly stable. It pissed me off, so I went back to a single boot.

You'll want to do two partitions, and then there's a specific way you have to do the install. I'll see if I can find it.

 

[TheProject]

That smily face is supposed to be ( C : ).

Anyways, "Win2K and NT can create and recognize as many as four partitions on a basic disk: one extended partition and as many as three primary partitions. Win9x and MS-DOS can recognize only two partitions on a basic disk: one primary partition and one extended partition."

So...is it even possible to create three partitions if I'm dual booting Win98se and Win2k?

I don't see why you couldn't create three partitions.

The directions I have are for 95/98 and NT, but the basic theory should be the same. Install 98SE first on one partition, get it done, then install 2000 on the second partition.

You should end up with a boot.ini that lists both OS's, and you should also get a boot menu asking you which OS you want.

 

[shoichi]

Thanks. I've installed W98se and was wondering, before I install Win2k, if I could create a third partition. Right now, I have two partitions. I like having a 3rd one to keep misc. stuff on, and have the freedom to use as a backup if I need to format one of my other drives. Right now, I do get a screen that asks what OS I want to boot up, I just haven't completed my Win2k install yet.

Truthfully, I am completely happy with Win2k. I was bored last night and wanted to play some DOS games, so I decided I would give it a shot.

 

[AustinTX]

By far the easiest way to go:
1. First install win98 on c: formatted as fat32.
2. Second install win2k on d: formatted as either fat32 or ntfs, won't matter. win2k will recognize 98 is installed and automatically create a dualboot for you.
3. have a 3rd partition for all the files you want to share between each OS, software, mp3's, porn, whatever.

yep. but on #2, do NTFS, it's better for W2K and NT.

use FDISK to break up the partiton you currently have.

you can just use 2 partitions, cause W2K can read the 98 stuff, but best to keep your "real" data in a separate safe place.

 

[shoichi]

Got everything up and running. There was still stuff on my D: drive, which is why I couldn't partition it. I have Win98se running on C:, D: is Win2k in NTFS, and E is Fat32 with my mp3's. Thanks for the help.

Now I can waste even more time playing games on my computer.