can you install win2000 and keep win98 as a seperate OS if so how?

If you put Win2000 in a different directory you can operate both systems.I have'nt tried it, but it will work.How well who know's. Ask more if u want.

If you have the 2195.3 release it (full OEM) allows you to do it at installation time. If however, you have only win2k on your pc, (and your boot hd is in fat32 format) you can install windows 98 (I used a boot floppy as dos doesn't really exist in win2k) and it will dual boot nicely when it's finished!

I've made a clean install of Win2k on the same partition as Win'98 and am now using both of them. There is a problem though. Win2k mess up the files in "Program Files" directory and some programs refuse to work on Win'98 anymore. Outlook Express is an example. But when I overwrote the Win2k Outlook Express files with Win98 ones, it started woking fine in both OSs.

Better way then the above ones, all crappy way to do it! Perfect setup case: 1- Get Parttion Magic 5 / Boot Magic 2 2- Clear your hard drive of all its partition Clean setup always works better My setup is: 4 primary partitions on the first HD 2 primary on the second 1st part. first HD - UTILITY PARTITION, 24MB Containing utility stuff such as Pqmagic, Bootrescue, Ghost 6, all the content of the windows 98 c:\windows\command\ directory 2nd part. Windows 98SE, in witch Pqmagic / PqBootmagic are installed, enabling you to switch to the os you want to boot when you start the computer, the way Pqboot does it, is when you choose witch os to boot, it makes the one you choose active and makes the other hidden, so the chosen partition will alkways be a C: drive not depending on any of the other OS's 3rd part. Windows 2000, this one is the first of the two different w2k installed on the system, so i can manage troubleshoot w2k from another w2k setup on the same computer and vice versa 4th part. another w2k instalation, this is the real one, witch gets all the appz and all 2nd hd, 1rst part (NTFS, size you want this is where i put the w2k page file so it reside on a different hd then the system , it does increase the performance a great lot, bu having it on a different physical hd, both w2k setup on 1rst hd are set same size pagefile, same place so they both use the same file, save room and all) 2nd hd, 2nd part. called transit: this is where i put win 98's swap file , same performance reason as w2k, this is also Fat32 part, so i save and work on that drive, so stuff can be accessed from both 98 and both w2k setup on my machine Things to know about partitions primary extended and limitation and starting position on the HD (cylinder etc) there can be only 4 primary partitions on any one hd so example here 3 primary and one extended containing more logical drive , would be 4 primary partitions, cause an extended partitions is basically a primary partition containing logical drives When you do the setup, make yourself that startup 98 disk , and find the file smartdrv.exe & sys.* and also copy it do the disk, helps speed up file copying when instaling w2k also make yourself the pqmagic 5 floppy disk, you will need disk 2, witch contains the pqmagic program on. - boot up the startup 98, no cd rom support, don't need it yet - 2nd disk pqmagic rescur, and type pqmagic - create your partitions - if you do it like me - you'll create 1 20+/- MB Primary Label:UTIL 2 800+/- MB Primary FAT32 Label:Win98 3 1 GB Primary FAT32 Label:W2K-UTIL 4 Rest of the drive FAT32 Label:W2K Important note about w2k, if you want it to boot, it has to be on a primary part and start in the first 3GB of the drive, it can be as long as you want but must at least start in that first 3GB limit from pqmagic make part 1 active, this will hide all other primary part, and make part 1 the bootable one, not bootable yet cause there is nothing on it Reboot, and put that statup 98 disk in, when it is booted, from the prompt do a "sys c:" to make that partition bootable, and if you do like me, you'll copy the whole floppy onto the c drive, and fix the autoexec and config file's path relating to drive a:, so like that, you can boot up your startup 98 from the hd, in 3 second versus, 1 min . 30 second from the floppy, once done run pqmagic again make active the second partition, and do the same as in the other paragraph, install 98 on it, but don't install pqboot just yet, after you are done again, run pqmagic, and make active the 3rd primary partition and reboot from the startup 98, load smartdrv, and copy to speed time, the i386 dir from the w2k, on the second hd, and run the setup from there, this will greatly increase the install speed once copied, go into the dir where you copied the i386 dir, and run "winnt", it will ask source for files, witch should be the right ones, proceed, let it work, it will copy all its file onto the c drive witch will then be the 3rd primary part on your first hd if you are going to do it like i did, and have a second w2k to troubleshoot and manage the other w2k, to save time, when the winnt first ask you to reboot, rebbot in your startup 98 disk, run pqmagic, and copy the 3rd partition over the 4th one and resize it till the end of the drive, this will quiken and skip the fisrt part and allow you to start from the second part of the install on that 4th partition going back to the w2k on 3rd partition, finish it up and be carefull to what you install, lots of stuff are making problem, word of advice here, if the default driver for the moment works decently, use it, if you got real w2k driver beta or not use, if you got nt4 drivers only, be carefull ther, and defenitively don't use crappy 95/98 drivers, as this will give you lots of problems now that you finished all this on the third part., rerun partition magic, and make the 4th partition active, reboot and do your setup again once the last partition or whatever you are doing on ask or you reboot, get into the startup 98, pqmagic, activate the win98 one, boot from it, install pqmagic / bootmagic and activate all the partition save/exit from pqmagic, now, when you boot up, you'll have 4 different choice to boot from that are totally independant if you have more questions, you can contact me Super Pirahna ICQ: 285145

Well, That sounds dumb!

Couldn't be simpler really...... NOT!!!