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dual booting win 2000/win 98 question.
Name: Samantha Date: May 2, 2002 at 07:01:56 Pacific
Comment:
I am currently dual booting win 98 and win 2000 on the same partition.
I what to change win 2000 fat32 partitioner to ntfs?
Will win 98 disappear???
I had some problems creating partitioner when dual booting win98 and win 2000 on the same partition using partition Magic. anyone every had that problem?
As Tony advises, if C: becomes ntfs then bye-bye access to '98...
For '9x to boot, the active Primary partition must be a file format it can recognise (at boot-time); and this must also contain' '98 boot/start-up files - even though the actual OS itself (its system files) can be elsewhere...
Post-21665 (#5) on this W2K forum explains the basics behind dual-booting '9x/W2K; perhaps worth a browse so you understand more fully the how/whys of it all?
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