I'm kind of new to NT. I have a fifteen gig hard drive with Windows 98 on a Fat 32 single partition. I understand that NTFS won't recognize Fat 32 and needs to be installed on a Fat 16 partition. I would like to install NT with Windows 98. AKA: Dual boot. Is there a way to do this without formating my exsisting drive. I have an additional 6 Gig hard drive available and also a copy partition magic. Thanks for any advice. Scott

http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13902 - courtesy of John Savill's FAQ's at: http://www.win2000mag.com - specifically: http://www.windows2000faq.com is one way, and you can adapt it to include NT on a second HD; you can also use PM - the manual 'should' cover it all from a PM perspective? In an ideal scenario: The C: system (active Primmmary) partition = FAT16 - must remain so; and each OS goes into its own logical-drive in the Extended partition (or on separate HD's). On a single/shared HD, NT must go into the first logical-drive; NT must be installed before '98 if intending to run FAT32 for '98 OS; all FAT32 areas should be after the NT boot-partition (where NT OS resides) - otherwise NT will not/cannot boot. In the 'ideal' scenario each OS can be its preferred file format (FAT32/NTFS accordingly). There are utils at: http://www.sysinternals.com that allow '9x to see NTFS, and NT to see FAT32 - once the OS's are installed correctly. The C: sytem FAT16 area is where all installed M$ OS's deposit their boot/start-up files; it MUST remain FAT16 and secure. With each OS in its own logical-drive (or on its own HD) it can be re-installed without upseting the other (installed OS). John Savills's method allows an interesting and workable hack/work-around to accomodate an existing FAT32 '98 (also available on the M$ KB - somewhere...).

The PM manual does'nt cover this.Email me and I will send you instructions I wrote for a dual boot using PM.

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