I recently installed a new 8.4 HDD as my original 1.2 was nearly full.The original drive has Win95 as it's OS (early version) I used EZ-Drive to partition the new HDD into 4 partitions and have it as the primary drive. I installed Win98 on it as its OS. My Bios did't allow me to make partitions over approx. 2 gigs. Would I be better off getting a new Motherboard and having only 1 partition for the 8.4 HD? Would each partion need it's own OS? (I don't want that) My other problem is that I am now unable to figure out how to boot drive D:(my 1.2g with Win95 on it) It's set up as my primary slave on the same cable on the Primary IDE. I really did't want to copy all the stuff from my old drive to the new one as I was having some problems and wanted to start out fresh. I downloaded a program called Power Boot and tried running it but on the next bootup nothing booted up and I ended up reformatting the new 8.4 and starting over. I learned that Power Boot is not compatible with EZ-Bios so I assummed that was my problem. What should be my next move to be able to dual boot? Thanks in advance! ;)

Dual booting two copies of Win 98 and/or Win 95 is a very bad idea. It is possible to boot two different hard drives, but at least one, and preferably both O/S's should not be able to read each others primary partition. Classic example: Win NT on a drive using the NTFS allocation table, Win 9x using the FAT 32 allocation table, and one shared FAT 16 partition. 2 gig partitions are just fine for Win 98, if you use large disk support. Buy yourself a removable hard drive bay and use that 1.2 as a back-up.

Your BIOS doesn't DO partitions, it's your FDISK from whatever system you use. If you want the full 8.4gb [don't expect all of it though], you have to partiton with the Win98 FDISK and use the large disk support. Win95a [sounds like your ver] will give you a max size of 2gb per partition if you use Win95 FDISK. I personally use several partitions because if you have to format your C: with it's system on it when things go really wrong, all other data on other drives will be safe, unless you partition HD or format any other partition again. If you used EZ-Drive to partition you will have to use it to delete those partitions before you can partition with FDISK. Doofus could be right about dual booting [I've never done it] because you may have your hands full with Win98 anyway without 2 systems to worry about. Also you don't need a new MoBo. Look in the HOW TO's section on your left of screen for info on P & F.

Hello, Loren: Your boot program you installed likely overwrote the master boot record of your new drive, where EZ-drive is installed. I would recommend System Commander if you feel you must have win95 and win98 on both drives. You will probably need some boot program to read the MBRs of both drives in order to boot either OS. System commander saves the mbr where EZ DRIVE writes its stuff and loads itself onto the mbr. I've setup Linux, win95, and win98 on same system w/o too much probs. Unless you installed win98 with FAT32, can you not see drive D, which would be FAT16, from within win98 on drive C? You could always go back, make drive D your bootable drive, upgrade to win98, then set C to be master and D to be slave. Now D should be accessible to C as a slave drive. That would remove the necessity of a boot manager. In addition, if you convert both drives to FAT32 under win98, your 2GB partitions will no longer have a 32K cluster size; something like 4K, I believe. This will dramatically speed up disk accesses and probably reclaim quite a bit of space from that 1.2G drive. Hope this helps. jason Subi dura a rudibus