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Dual booting Win98 and Win2000 Pro
Name: DDB Date: January 24, 2001 at 13:50:38 Pacific
Comment:
I have Win98 installed already. To install/dual boot WIN2000 pro, do I just boot into Win98 and then install Pro into a new partition?
Name: Yuval Sinay Date: January 24, 2001 at 14:26:58 Pacific
Reply:
Log in 98, run setup of Win2k and dont forget to disable any antivirus you use & when win2k setup run choose "I will choose the partisan of installation during the installation" If you have in c: win98 install in d: win2k pro
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Response Number 2
Name: lm-s Date: January 24, 2001 at 15:26:17 Pacific
Reply:
And if your PC allows a CD boot up, you can boot from the CD (W2K CD's are bootable) and install that way. As already advised by Yuval, you choose where you want to install it...
The two OS's 'can' reside in the same partition; but it's very much better/wiser/safer to have them in separate partitions.
Use FAT32 for W2K if you wish to share info. located in the W2K partition. '98 cannot 'see' NTFS without the use of third-party utils...
Make the ERD for W2K once installed. Keep safe/current.
Summary: I had a dual boot: Win98, Win2000 Pro. Windows 98 died and it died hard. I booted up this morning and got a message that told me "Explorer.exe" has been corupted or destroyed and I MUST reinstall w...
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