Hi, Can anyone tell me what can I do if I need my system set-up for 3 different languages Win 98 OS. My friends told me that if I have 2 Win98 OS in one system, when it boot up, it will mess all system registry and files, it this true? I need to type, read & edit 3 different languages, but I found that english win98 didn't support Japanese and Chinese. Is there any effort I can use without installing 3 OS? If not, Is there any good partition software that anyone can recommend? Thanks buddy!

maybe you can just change languages everytime you boot, but i wouldnt know anything about that. you can have 3 windows 98 os's without using something like system commander. just install the first as usual then download a boot manager like boot magic, xosl, or osloader2000. OSLoader 2000 is my personal favorite and it is easy to use. you can get it at www.osloader.com. install it and make two more primary fat32 partitions. partition magic works great but if you are under money constraints ranish is good (www.ranish.com). they will show up as hidden. reboot and when osl2000 comes up press F8 on the 2nd primary partition. this will unhide it. then put in the win98 boot disk and boot from a: which is the top choice of the menu. then just install as usual but change the language. do this for the third install of win98. probably pretty confusing. if you need more detail email me.

no you can't change languages everytime you boot. there is a .dll which controlls the languages but i dont recomend you screw with changing that. i recomend you get a program designed to be used with other languages. if you DO wnat to run 3 OS's you will need several things: a hard drive of a bare minimum (barely any room for anything but the OS's) of 2 gigs. and that is a BARE minimum..you may not even be able to do it with that...you should have at least an 8 gigger drive in my opinion for this. next you buy 3 distributions of Win 98 OS (one for each langauge) and a boot controller which will allow you to select what OS to boot with (you can findt hem in software stores). NEXT you need to make sure you have your lovely boot floppy and restart into msdos mode. then you type format C: /s *warning warning* all data WILL be lost onthis drive so BACK UP. this drive will become the main boot drive for your system. after this is done you use your floppy and restart. you type fdisk. hit yes to enable large disc support. and go into the program. you then create your three EQUAL partitions in fdisk. note the drive assignments. after this you go to c: and install your primary language for win 98. (or, if you boot selector software requires..install it first). then you go to your other two drives and install their respective win 98 distributions. after this you will need to buy a keyboard for at least the japanese win 98 because in the case of japanese the entire keyboard will be remapped (since japanese does not have character that represent "letters" but instead entire words) and you wont have a clue what key does what on your keyboard...the japanese keyboard will have the key-value printed on the key. after all this you pray your computer will still work because multi-OS systems are not exactly known for stability. now...i, personaly, would have a different hard drive for each win 98 distribution..but that's just me and you will still have a ton of problems and will still have to you use bootup selector. so i think this is definitely NOT worthwhile.

i have never had any trouble with booting 2 copies of win98, a copy of dos 6.22 w/ windows 3.11 on top, and linux all on the same hard drive. i am not a language specalist though so you might want to find a site that talks about this.

In addition to the question, that the most difficult part is the language versions difference, but basically the apps's structures are same, am I right? It seems like I will lose all information when booting different OS, does that mean I cannot cross referencing all files?