I have a 20GB hard drive. I folowed a set of instructions that had me do the following: Boot with 98 startup disk. Run Fdisk and "no" to large hard disk option. Create 2047MB partition. Restart using startup disk and format the partition. Install NT 4.0 Restart using 98 startup disk. Run Fdisk and select large disk support. Create a 10GB partition for Win2000. Create a 8GB partition for Win98. Restart with startup disk and format both partitions. Run Fdisk and set the 10GB partition to active. Install Win2000. Restart with startup disk and set the 8GB partition to active. Restart and install Win98. Run Win98 and using Explorer, create a new folder in drive C: named Boot. Copy the Boot Manager files from drive A to the Boot folder. In the Boot folder, double-click Setup to run the program. Select the partitions and save the boot information to drive C. Now, all this works just fine. Boot Manager was downloaded from http://legendos.sitebest.com/ and was prepared as instructed. It does allow me to succesfully boot to the NT 4.0 and Win2000 partitions. It allows me to select win98 for boot also, but immediately after selection, there is a blinking cursor and the system is hung without booting anything. I have tried various things but all to no avail. Since this tip comes from a highly intellegent source (I can't remember where) that has made this work, I know it is indeed possible to triple boot with FAT32, NTFS and NT5 NTFS, but I sure can't get it to work. Is there anyone out there that sees the issue here, or perhaps has a spare workstation with a lot of time on their hands for a test installation *smile*? Thank you for any response. My hair is getting shorter by the day; only been trying this everyday for the last week!!!

from what i hear, the order in which you install can have very bad effects on operation or the different OS. something to do with the registry updates. usual install order for that layout would be NT4 then Win98 then Win2k. hope this gets you a little closer...=]

I know that all installations of all OSes need to be installed on the first 8 gb (or withint the 1024 cylinder) for Windows to boot properly. The problem dosent seem to be that because you installed win 98 first, and that should be on the beg of the HD. Sorry. cannot help why i may not boot..................

All you need to do is to create a C: system partition that is FAT16 - make it large enough to hold the NT4 i386,and the W2K i386, and the '98 Folder - probably around 300-500Meg. - copy them over... Install the OS's from there. This partition is 'active' and must remain FAT16... You will need to clearly distinguish between the two i386's - label them so as to reflect which is NT 4 and which is W2K... Install NT4 first, into a logical-drive in the Extended area; then install '98 into a logical-drive; then install W2K into a logical-drive. M$ advise: have any FAT32 areas after NT; install W2K last in any dual/multi-boot scenario. Each OS can be its preferred file format; but be aware tht NT cannot 'see' FAT32' so if there are common accessed data files then have a FAT16 logical drive too... All M$ OS's install their boot/start-up files into the C: system (active Primary) partition. Since (you have NT present) the only common file format is FAT16, so with NT present C: system has to be FAT16... You do not need a third-party boot-manager... Both NT and W2K come with one designed for the job you want to do... Some useful reading and 'how to do it...' in more detail: http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8851 http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8824 Also for the basic dual-boot NT/'98 which will be established first... have a read of http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/3279.html which gives an interesting and workable NT/'98 (NTFS/FAT32) set-up; W2K can go in afterwards - into another logical-drive... As soon as you have installed NT (with Service Pack) MAKE the ERD and keep handy - '98 may mis-behave and overwrite NT's boot-loader, and you will need the NT ERD to restore it - before installing W2K... Be aware of what W2K does to NT when W2K is installed... It's all in the articles to which I've provided the links...

Gentlemen, thank you for taking the time to read my lengthy posting and respond. I will try what's behind response #3 this weekend, and I'll be back if I have more questions. Again, thank you! ;-)