Dear, I have installed W2K in C: using NTFS. Then use PartitionMagic to create another partition i: in primary partition. I installed W98 in i:. I can only boot up either W2K or W98 by changing the 'active drive' using PartitionMagic and it is troublesome. How can I use the multiboot function of W2K?? Thanks, Jeff

In order to use the 2000 boot loader you have to install 98 first and 2000 second...so the 2000 boot loader is aware of the 98 install. You can probably use a 3'd party boot loader like system commander with your present configuration.

Dual Booting NT & 98 w/ PM Boot Magic Partition Magic comes w/Boot Magic which allows you to run multiple OS's.I use it on my machine and run Fat32 and NTFS.If you have a single HDD w/Win98 use PM to move it to the back of the hard drive.When you install NT make a small c: partition of 100Mb or smaller which will be FAT.When NT asks about another partition,set it to 2048 and format to NTFS. When this is done you should have a primary FAT and a Logical NTFS partition.NT will then install to D:.Start NT and install BM,which will go to the C:FAT partition.After the install it will see WinXX & NT.Make the emergency boot disk for BM.If you have a second HDD then you only have to create the primary FAT and Logical partitions.BM will see the other HDD.I know this works because I have multiple HDD's and have done this on machines with a single HDD's.If you call PowerQuest(the makers of this product)they will tell you that you have to make evrything FAT and that running the different formats is not supported. Good Luck. Damon

All you have to do is a repair with your win2k disk at boot and it should find win98 and add it to the boot.ini file. You may have to run fixboot and/or fixmbr from the recovery console but it will do the trick. Boot Magic sucks.

You had C: = ntfs = W2K = original/first (active) Primary; you installed '98 = fat32 = second/separate Primary? You 'could' use PM or System Commander add-in boot-manger utils to do the dual-boot option... It would be installed to whichever active Primary you prefer... (Read the appropriate manual.) But - providing the '98 Primary starts before the 8Gig boundary (physically) on the drive you can do it without the add-ins... So, presuming '98 Primary starts 'before' the 8Gig (boot-code) boundary: Set the '98 primary 'active'; run W2K setup (CD boot/4 floppies (whichever - but not from within '98); allow it to start a fresh installation; or allow it to Repair or Upgrade the present w2K installation (in first Primary ). W2K setup 'will' (should) find it... At first reboot - abort all installations etc; remove all disks and reboot to a dual-boot menu listing both OS. Leave the '98 Primary as the 'active' partition - otherwise no dual-boot... (If you end up with a few W2K temp-files etc. in '98 {Primary you can safely delete them; but do 'not' obviously delete the W2K boot/startup files... It all depends on which option you go for.) What you will have done is to install a set of W2K boot/startup files into the '98 active Primary; thus fulfilling, after a fashion, the requirement for a W2K/'98 dual-boot. The core requirement/condition for dual/multi-boots for all M$ OS is that all installed OS 'must' have their boot/startup files in the active Primary; and this 'must be a file format they can all see at boot time. W2K/'98 can see fat16/fat32; '98 cannot see ntfs. You have already installed '98 as fat32 so W2K can dump its boot-files alongside '98 OS itself and the job's done (after a fashion). Post 21665 #5 details the basics and more of dual-boots for W2K/'9x; perhaps a browse would help yiou understand it all a little more clearly? If you understand how/why a dual-boot works then it's quite easy (usually) to put either W2K or '9x in after whichever one is already in there first...; the ideal starting point being a non-ntfs active Primary... And it's not usually necessary to use add-in boot-manger utils; although sometimes it's an easier option...