i have windows 2000 installed on my hard drive using ntfs. i would like to add windows 98 to a second drive and have the option of booting between them. i have not even attempted to try this yet, and was wondering if anyone knew the procedure for doing this. i know that windows 98 can not see ntfs partitions but that is not really an issue on this computer. i would just like an install of windows 98 that i can use for a couple of applications that dont' function in the nt enviroment

I have setup my boot.ini file to allow me to boot between 2000 and NT Server 4.0 that are on seperate hard drives. When I configured my system I left myself at least one good configuration so that if I did not have it setup correctly I could get into Windows to change the boot.ini. This is a copy of my configuration. Hope it helps. multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="NT SERVER 4.0" /fastdetect

I´ve read somewhere in some file, that youre supposed to kill your ntfs boot sector on your harddrive no:1 with somekind of DOSish bootdisk (fat32/16)and then install win98 on harddrive no:2. Then use your 4 win2000 start/rescue- disks to repair the bootsector, and then configure your boot.ini file. I´m not brave enough to try this myself quite yet since I´m not very familiar with all the different bootsectors, but I´m looking in to it.

This little bit of information might be helpful if used in conjunction with the information provided by Kudos Dual-Boot Considerations From Inside Windows 2000 Server by William Boswell, New Riders, 2000. Bootstrap loader limitations. The Windows 2000 bootstrap loader, NTLDR, can load any version of NT or Windows 2000 from any drive or partition on the local system (except some flavors of removable media drive), but it can load only one alternate operating system. It does so by storing the boot sector for the alternate OS in a file called BOOTSECT.DOS at the root of the boot partition. If the alternate OS is selected from the Windows 2000 BOOT menu, NTLDR shifts the processor back to Real mode, loads the image from BOOTSECT.DOS into memory at 0x700h just as if it had been loaded by a standard INT13 call, and then turns control over to the executable code in the image. Booting Two Alternate Operating Systems with NTLDR If you need to boot more than two operating systems and one of them is not a Windows OS, use a partition manager, such as Partition Magic, System Commander, or Linux Loader (LILO). If you want to configure a triple-boot machine to load DOS/Windows, Windows 9x, and Windows 2000, you can create a triple-boot menu with two alternate BOOTSECT files by layering your installations. This process is described in detail in Microsoft's KnowledgeBase article Q157992 (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q157/9/92.asp). The basic steps are as follows. Booting Two Alternate Operating Systems 1. Install DOS. 2. Install Windows 2000. This saves the DOS boot sector to BOOTSECT.DOS. 3. Toggle the read-only, hidden, and system attributes on BOOTSECT.DOS. 4. Rename BOOTSECT.DOS to BOOTSECT.622, for DOS version 6.22. 5. Install Windows 9x. This overwrites the Windows 2000 boot sector with its own boot sector. 6. Run the Windows 2000 Repair Console. Use it to restore a Windows 2000 boot sector, and save the existing boot sector as BOOTSECT.DOS. 7. Toggle the read-only attribute on BOOT.INI. 8. Edit BOOT.INI to add the following lines: [Operating Systems] c:\bootsect.622="DOS" /win95dos c:\bootsect.dos="Win9x" /win95 The switches enable multiple boot features in Windows 9x.

i would like to know how to dualboot win2k and linux without using the 1.44 lilo thnks (i use i use 2 harddrives)