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Triple booting Win2000
Name: Dave Edwards Date: April 10, 2000 at 14:56:25 Pacific
Comment:
Can someone tell me how I go about triple booting with Win98/NT4 and Win2000. I currently have Win98/2000 dual booting but have had problems getting NT on as well. Any ideas?
Name: Adri Timmermans Date: April 11, 2000 at 03:24:41 Pacific
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I have win95-NT4-W2K trippleboot. Works great. But, NT4 must servicepack > 4. And install NT4 before W2K. If you reinstall NT4 it will ruin the W2K bootloader and you must reinstall W2K again to fix that goodluck
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Response Number 2
Name: Hartland West Date: April 12, 2000 at 17:34:14 Pacific
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What file system are you useinf for the NT and the W2K? Are the two different ver.s of NTFS compatable?
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Response Number 3
Name: Jmaniac Date: April 18, 2000 at 11:12:39 Pacific
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I've figured out how to triple boot these 3 by using FAT16 and FAT32. 1st fdisk a 2GB FAT16 partition ONLY using DOS 6 or whatever works... 2nd install NT4 to this partition and update with latest service pack. Next fdisk with W98 and select Yes to enable FAT32 large drive capability. Add the remainder of the disk as an extended partition and divide that up into logical drives (whatever size). Do NOT touch the primary FAT16 C: partition, only mess with the extended. After formatting ONLY the logical drives, install W98 to whichever logical drive desired. When fully installed, run the 3 floppies for the NT4 setup again and select "repair NT installation" (or something like that). It will eventually give 4 items for it to repair - select only the boot sector for repair. Helps to use the latest ATAPI.SYS driver instead of the older one originally on the NT4 setup disks (MS article # Q197667). After the "repair", it should now dual-boot between W98 or NT4. Installing the free FAT32 driver from http://www.winternals.com can allow NT4 to read from the other drives (but not write). Last should be the install of W2000 to one of the remaining empty logical drives. This has worked for me, hope it works for others...
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