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Help! Win2k & Win98 dual boot problems!
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Name: Aaron
Date: November 7, 2000 at 18:45:34 Pacific
Subject: Help! Win2k & Win98 dual boot problems! |
Comment: Someone please help- I installed windows 2000 pro on my 20 gig hard drive. I planned on not using windows 98 at all anymore, but then a few of my games and programs wouldnt work with 2000, so I decided to try to dual boot 2000 and 98. I formatted my hard drive and installed 2000. I then bought another hard drive and put 98 on it and followed directions on how to dual boot them. Now when I boot up my machine I have the option to choose 2000 or 98 (like i should). The problem is when I choose 98, i only get to the 98 desktop about 1/4 times. 98 starts to load (splash screen shows) and then it seems to stop. After a little while, it turns to a black dos-like screen with only a flashing cursor in the upper left corner (no c:\ prompt or anything). After it does that it just stays like that indefinitely, i can ctrl-alt-del and restart it and "roll the dice" to hope win 98 will actually start up. Then, sometimes when 98 does start up, all of the video settings get messed up and it drops me down to 16 colors and 640 x 480 resolution. I can then change it, and restart my machine, then its another roll of the dice to see if 98 can come up again. Windows 2000 boots up perfectly every time, i've never had a problem with it. My machine specs are:
Gateway
P3 550, 128 MB ram
TNT2 video
soundblaster live value
13 gig IBM hard drive
20 gig Quantum hard drive Please help! Email or respond to this msg!
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Response Number 1
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Name: Daniel
Date: November 8, 2000 at 02:59:44 Pacific
Subject: Help! Win2k & Win98 dual boot problems! |
Reply: (edit)If I were you i'd install Win98 as primary boot partition on any harddrive and then install Win2000 with a clean install, installed on another partition. This helped me. Any questions just email me.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Johnfreddy
Date: November 8, 2000 at 08:35:40 Pacific
Subject: Help! Win2k & Win98 dual boot problems!
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Reply: (edit)Yes, Daniel is correct when setting up dualboot, you should install win98 then win 2000
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Response Number 3
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Name: Aaron
Date: November 8, 2000 at 09:53:42 Pacific
Subject: Help! Win2k & Win98 dual boot problems! |
Reply: (edit)Thanks a Ton guys! Anyone else have any tips or ideas to make this go smoothly? Aaron
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Response Number 4
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Name: Rodrigo
Date: November 8, 2000 at 15:06:54 Pacific
Subject: Help! Win2k & Win98 dual boot problems! |
Reply: (edit)Why don't you use a boot manager like XOSL (www.xosl.org), Ranish Partition Manager (www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part) or Master Booter (www.masterbooter.com) ?
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Response Number 5
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Name: stuart simpson
Date: November 29, 2000 at 10:33:55 Pacific
Subject: Help! Win2k & Win98 dual boot problems!
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Reply: (edit)which drive is the first drive in your ide chain? Windows 95,98,ME (9x)have to be in the c:\ drive,
ie the Master drive on ide 0, and have to be stored in a primary, bootable partition.
if this is the case a boot program should let you choose between each os.
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