I am running win2k on my 20gig with a 2.5 partition which i planned to install win98se on. The win2k partition is NTFS and the 2nd partition is FAT32. When I used partition magic to create the 2nd partition, It labeled it as the F: letter, and my NTFS partition is the C:. I booted into dos by using a win98 boot disk, and went into fdisk to look at the drive letters. It said my 2.5gig partition was letter C:, not F: like in partition magic. It did not give a letter for my NTFS one, but it showed it there. What letter should i use to install win98 on? It then said in dos that my cd roms were E and F. So is the 2.5gb C? And the NTFS D:? Also when I go about installing win98, I just go to C:(Or whatever drive letter is the 2.5gig) and type md win98, cd win98, Setup? Right? Thanks, Bill

If you have a fat partition anywhere on the drive, c must be fat, the ntfs must be anything except c. Making the ntfs partition your first partition caused it to lose its drive letter. To load both OS on the drive, make all the drives fat or fat32. Load WIN on c using the setup program. Load W2K anywhere else and you'll have the option to change it's drive to NTFS. (Don't make any partition larger than 4 gigs as W2K has a problem with that. Also W2K just plain dislikes some large hard drives.) The reason if because W2K and WIN use different master boot records. Loading W2K second will modify the MBR to an NT MBR and back-up the WIN MBR as bootsectdos. Choosing the WIN OS from the boot menu causes the MBR in bootsectdos to be reloaded into sector 0 so WIN can load.