Can anyone please please help me... After much desperation I have been trying to install NT with the three boot disk. I bought a copy of partition magic, partitioned my 10 gig hard drive (It has windows 98 on it) - made a suitable partition for NT - made it the active partition. I went through the boot disks installation process after tons of trial and error, and finally got to the last bit of this process which more or less tells you - "reboot your machine now and the NT setup porcess will start", so I reboot my machine and it goes to boot from the drive but...nothing happens... I have made sure the partition is active and the rest of it...this is driving me crazy :-( Please..can anyone help me, get to the next stage of this god forsaken installation process...

Judging from your comments you have done everything ok, as long as the partition is active it should go straight into the remaining setup files. incidentally why are you using floppy disks to install NT, if your machine has a CD-ROM just enable the boot order in the BIOS so that the CD-ROM is the first bootable device and boot from the CD. It is alot easier and quicker, I would be tempted to do this. When it has copied the start up files and re-boots, be sure to eject the cd and when it has booted from the hard disk put it back again otherwise you'll be going round in circles only doing the first few minutes of setup!!! Hope it helps

Been through this before and have solved this problem for many other people. Unfortunatly you will have to start from scratch. The problem is rooted in the mbr. NT = 16 bit, win98 = 32 bit. Due to this fact one or the other will fail to boot, not even partition magic will help you. If you follow these steps you will get both OS's to co-exist on the same hard drive. 1. Since you have partion magic use it to delete all partitions on your hard drive. 2. boot up with a 16 bit version of a Dos installtion disk, press F3 to get to a dos prompt enter the command fdisk /mbr then press enter. you now have a 16 bit mbr. 3. reboot with the Dos install disk one and install dos on a partition no larger than 2.5 gig. 4. install Win98 as usual, do not run drive convertor, The win98 partition must remain 16 bit 5. install NT as you have done so many times :) be sure you you do not delete the win98 partition. 6. at the point your install was failing you should successfully reboot and complete the NT install. OS loader should give you the choice of NT and Windows. Be sure to use the 16 bit dos boot disk to create an extended and logical partitions as needed for win98 and the disk administrator utility in NT for extra ntfs partitions. These steps have worked every time they have been followed, and don't feel bad I even had to give these instructions to one of my teachers back in tech school !

before you erase and start from scratch what do you mean by a suitable nt partition? also with a 10gig hard drive you will need the updated atapi.sys driver from sp4 or later(see microsoft document Q197667) then check out www.ntfaq.com/install for more detailed instructions