Hey everyone, I need some help with doing a partition and dual booting. I have a secong hard drive that I want to partition and install windows 98 on it. Is this possible? I will also need a good partition program, prefrably free. WIll partitioning erase the rest of my hard drive? I apperciate all the help!

Hi yeah it surely is possible to install windows 98 on ur second hard drive. as far as partition program is concerned, i will recommend u partition magic. a very excellent tool for partitioning and it can merge or split partitions without having a data loss, but i am afraid its not free, or if u r willing to give some good time, may be u can find a free copy from searching it at some P2P networks such as Kazaa or iMesh etc

What you ask is not as simple as you have been lead to believe. The fact that you have W2K installed on the first drive was not taken into consideration. If you install 98 on the 2nd drive you will lose your W2K boot. Not a big deal if you understand this and are prepared. Since you have W2K on the first drive, use Disk Manager in Computer Management to partition and format the 98 drive as fat32. No other utilities required. Now do your 98 install. Once complete you will note you go straight into 98. Get out your W2K cdrom and start the install. choose repair. Use the utility fixboot. Now you have your boot menu back and can choose between W2K and 98. Best of luck!

But remember that W2K (at least the Primary) on first (designated Master) drive has to be fat32... If it's ntfs then your option/solutions do change significantly. If W2K (Primary) = fat32 - follow Wanderer's guidelines. You cannot "easily" dual-boot W2K (or XP) with '9x if C: = ntfs...; but it can be done. And as you have two drives it can be done without add-in utils.