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hi,
i wish if anyone could tell me how to partion a hard drive using fdisk, creating one partition of FAT32 and the extended partition of NTFS. I plan to dual boot win xp and win 98.
by the way i have win 98SE installed
if you can boot pc to the cd rom first boot.
then just boot the pc with the windows xp cd and it will set it up for you.
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Hold on a second...If you want to dual boot with Win 98 and Win XP, you need to install Win 98 FIRST.
Boot up the machine with the Win 98 boot disk. Then:
At the A: prompt start "FDISK."If asked to use Large Disc support say Yes.
The first screen looks like this:
Create Dos Partition or Logical Drive
Set Active Partition
Delete Partitions or Logical DOS Drives
Display Partition Information
Change current fixed drive. (In case you have two or more HDDs)
So, to prepare you hopefully did a backup from your data. You did, didn't you ?!Next we need to remove the existing partitions. So go to 3.
Next screen like this:
Delete Primary DOS
Delete Extended DOS
Delete Logical Drives
Delete Non-DOS
Delete always in the following orderLogical (All) > Extended > Primary (Last)
Go back to first screen after all partitions have been removed.
Now we need to setup our new partitions. Go to 1.
This screen looks like this:
Create Primary DOS
Create Extended DOS
Create Logical DOS Drives
Here we create in the following orderPrimary > Extended > Logical Drives.
First create the Primary. If asked to use all space say No and enter the amount you wish for the C: drive. It should be set automatically to be the (only) Active partition. If not it may ask you or you have to select "2. Set active partition" from the main menu.
Next create the Extended Partition. Use all space left.
Enter the amount you wish for the D: partition.
OK now we're finished with FDISK so just exit it. Hit Ctrl Alt Del to reboot your PC.
Go back into fdisk and choose the option to just see what you have created an ensure that it saved it. Then get back out of fdisk.
At the A:> prompt, type format C: /s.
After the format, leave the boot disk in again, hit ctrl alt del again to reboot, and when it gets to the boot menu choose to boot with CDROM support. Make sure your Win 98 CD is in the drive, and type E:\setup and the Win 98 installation begins. After 98 ios installed, you'll need to enter your CMOS, usually by tapping the DEL or F1 key while it's first booting up. Look around in there and find the "boot sequence area". Change the boot sequence so that CDROM is the first boot device, save changes when exiting, (make sure your Win XP CD is in the drive now) and exit the CMOS. It will now boot up on your XP CD, at that point follow all prompts and install XP on the D: partition. When you're done, you'll have a boot menu which is automatically created giving you the choice of O/S to boot to. You realize you'll lose all of your data, so save anything you want now before you begin this process. Just my opinion, but I believe you're better off using the FAT32 file system on the XP partition so you can access both partitions when you are running. If you format 98 with fat32 (which it does by default, and you format the XP partition with NTFS, you won't be able to "see" the other partion. Post back with the results, I just typed my head off, I'd like to know how it went.
You realize that you'll lose all of your data when you do this, so copy off everthing
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Just a small corection to the above. There is no need to create and Extended Partion and all the over heads that entails. Create another Primaty DOS Partition. A disk can have up to four partitons.
There was a time that only one of those could be visible at a time, but that is not the case anymore. Al four can be visible assuming they are formatted with a file system the OS can read.
Stuart
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Stuart, Maybe I need to learn something here. What do you mean by "There is no need to create and Extended Partion and all the over heads that entails". I'm not necessarily disagreeing at all, I literally don't understand what you mean! Help me out here...
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ankit said that windows 98 was already install, so therefor all he needs to do is install windows xp,and save the windows 98 and then install xp the way he wants,both can be install on c drive or he can partition the drive with the windows xp cd.
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Raincheck
There used to be a time that if you wanted to have more than one drive visible on the same disk at the same time the boot drive had to be a Primary partion and any others drives had to part of an Extended Partition. Any other primary partitions were automatically hidden. Any other drives had to be logical drives within an extended partition.
As soon as you create an extended partition is takes up disk space before you even create any logical drives.
Now you can have up to four primary partitions. Ony one can be active but the others are visible and available for use. In effect, Extended Partitons are now redundant.
I only found this out myself recently after reading something on this Forum. I think it probably came about with Windows 95/98 when Fat32 was introduced.
Stuart
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Stuart, I believe that you have some misinformation here.
If a Primary DOS Partition isn't set Active, it won't be seen by the Operating System. This is precisely what it means to set a partition as Active.
Fdisk, (I believe) will not allow you to create multiple Primary DOS Partitions on the same HD. Third party programs such as Partition Magic will allow it, but not fdisk.
Even if you create multiple Primary DOS Partitions using a third party program, fdisk will not allow you to set more than one of them as Active (visible).
Ankit, unless you already have unallocated space on your HD, fdisk won't allow you to create any new partitions without losing everything on the HD (Win98). A third party partitioning program would need to be used to resize the current partition smaller, thus leaving empty space to create the new partition.
Also...fdisk won't allow you to create an NTFS partition. Fdisk is a DOS-based program. DOS & NTFS aren't compatable. You can either:
1) Create a FAT32 partition, which Win XP Setup can convert to NTFS.
Or
2) Boot with the XP CD & let XP Setup create the NTFS Partition.
HTH
Dave
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Dave,
your right, Fdisk doesnt allow you to create more than one Primary partition on a Disk. I used BootIT NG.
However, once the Primary Partitions are created, Fdisk recognises them and they are all visible.
I have a disk that contains three Primary partitons. A FAT16 and two FAT32, one containing Win98. All three are visible in Windows Explorer in both Win98 and Win XP except the NTFS partition when in Win98
Also an NTFS and two FAT32 on the other disk, all visible and not and Extended Partition to be seen.
Stuart
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Stuart, I use Partition Magic 7, which also allows creating multiple Primary DOS Partitions, but strongly advises against having more than one Active Primary DOS partition that contains an Operating System at a time, for fear of cross-corruption of the registries. PM7 will allow you to do this, but they strongly advise against it.
HTH
Dave
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well guys i was successful in dual booting. I chose the NTFS partition for xp. Thanks a lot to all you great people. A special thanx to raincheck!!
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Dave,
I cannot see how cross corruption of registries can occur if both operating systems are on different partitions. There is no possibiltie of the active OS writing to the registry of the inactive OS or any other application using the wrong registry. Not withstanding that if the two OS are Win98 and Win XP there is even less chance as the two registry formats are different.
Its been like this now for a month or two. I'll let you know if I have any problems.
Stuart
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Stuart, I haven't had any personal experience of cross-corruption, but that is the warning from PM7. I heeded their advice & hid my Primary DOS Partitions from each other, leaving only one of them active at a time.
My current setup boots DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11, Win95, Win98, Win2K, WinXP, & Linux, each in their own partitions. I also have partitions for Apps & Data. A re-install would be a major undertaking, so I tend to err on the side of caution. The first 3 OS's are in Primary DOS Partitions. The next 2 are NTFS Logical Drives in an extended Partition. Data & Apps are FAT32 Logical Drives. Linux & Linux Swap are their own format.
After a year & 1/2, I haven't experienced any major problems. I think I'll stick to the setup as it is. LOL
By the way...WinXP Pro is my OS of choice. The wife uses Win98 SE. The rest are just for experimentation. For example, I often boot into Win95 to test something, before answering a forum post about Win95. It also helps to be familiar with other OS's when trying to help friends & family with computer problems.
Good luck with your setup. I wish you well.
Dave
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