Is it possible to setup a dual boot with windows 98 and 2000 pro on separate partitions but on the same hdd? right now i have 98se installed after getting pissed off at xp and bored of 2000, and i can honestly say that i like 98se over both of those os's. but the problem is that i cant play gta: san andreas (awesome game) on 98, so i want to try a dual boot of 98se and 2000pro, just NOT on the same partition. i hate have dual boots with 2 operating systems on the same paritions. is this possible, and if so, how would i go about doing it? John Lawrence

If the drive is already partitioned or has unused space, all you need to do is run the Win2k install program and tell it to use the second partition. It will recognise the presence of win98 and set up a boot manager. It's the dos based OS's that can't recognise a previous OS and need to be installed first. Naturally before you try to do any of this BACKUP everything you want to keep! If you only have a single partition, you will need to run defrag, to compress the amount of space you are currently using. Then you can split the partition. You will need a utility to do this. Partition Manager is an easy to use and highly regarded commercial aplication. Cheapskates like me use things like the Linux utility fips.

And keeping the Operating Systems on separate partitions is not only possible, it's the preferred method of dual booting. HTH Dave If Wile Coyote had enough money for all that Acme crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

thanks guys, that helps a lot! i knew that the DOS based OS had to be installed before the NT based ones, but I didn't think that the newer NT based operating systems would actually detect windows 98 and actually setup a dual boot with it. ive had trouble trying to find thorough information on dual booting but you pretty much answered all the questions i had about it. Thanks John Lawrence

...and good luck running any game with Windows 2000 Rule #1: Good Computers don't go down. Rule #2: There is no such thing as a good computer.

I have just purchased a new 80Gb Hard-disk, and with to install Win-2000 Prof and Win-98Se on it, Request you to please advice: 1) How do i partition the HDD -- what software / utility can i use 2) Normaly for 80Gb HDD what are the sizes of Partitions recommended 3) which partition to be formated with FAT32 and whhich partition with NTFS 4) On which partition shall i install Win-98Se and on whhich partition shall i install Win-2000 Prof.

While your question is similar to the one John posted, you really should have started your own thread. I'll give a quick answer, but if you need more, start a new thread. More people will see it. The tool to partition you HDD is included on the windows 98 startup disk (floppy). It is called 'fdisk'. You may have received another program which may be better with the hard drive. Windows98 needs to be on the C: drive. This is the first partition on the primary master drive. It will not install to a second drive or partition. Also it uses FAT32. Windows 2000 is not so fussy, but it should live on a NTFS partition. How much space you allocate to each OS is your decission. You have a better idea of how you intend to use the computer and what programs you intend to install. Considder making a third shared partition. This will be useful for storing files. It will need to be FAT32. I believe that you will find more indepth coverage on this topic in the howto section on this site. It listed near the bottom in the left hand pane.