I'm having a system with windows 98 on it. The hard disk of size 8 GB with now partitions on it. Could any one please let me know the best way of installing Windows NT server 4.0 on it. I prefer to have the current Windows 98 intact. If removing the windows 98 is unavoidable to partition the hard disk. Please let me know.

Thanks in Advance.

Hello, I had the same problem when I tried to install WinNT over Windows95, the problem is that WindowsNT canīt see any FAT32 Particion, when I move all my files to another disk, format a primary particion as FAT, then copy back Win95 and finally install WinNT

I just purchased a computer with windows98 installed on my hard drive. I too am interested in settuing up a dual boot with windows 98 and NT 4.X Server.

My hard drive is over 20 GB -- so i have plenty of room. It's an Hp Pavilion and has a backup cad that can be used to restore the loaded programs.

Is there any way to leave win98 intact and setup a another particion for NT Server?

Currently my drives are C: (Hard Disk, M: (DVD CD ROM)and N: (R/W CD ROM). Which drive shouild I use for Win98 and which do I use for NT4.

Any suggestions on the best way to do this?

Thanks for any help on this!

Hi,

Visit:

http://www.ntfaq.com

John Savill's site for NT. It's all in the installations section...

If '98 is FAT32, then there is 'hack'... otherwise you have to resort to something like Partition Manager..., or reformat the C:>\ drive to FAT16, and proceed from there... (John's site details it all.)

If your 98 is FAT16, the installing NT is straightforward, and you won't lose any OS's...; and NT can go into its own 'space'
and be NTFS if you want. But remember that '9x can't 'see' NTFS and NT can't 'see' FAT32... Critical/common accessd/data files have to be FAT16... - unless you use the work-arounds from:

http://www.sysinternals.com

who have utils that get around these problems, after the OS's are installed. Otherwise get W2K which can handle FAT32...

Ideally, without using PM or similar... C:>\ has to be FAT16 and is the system (bootable partition); the OS's can go into their own separate spaces... C:>\ can be as little as 200Meg; but I prefer to have it around 500Meg - 1 or 2 Gig, and install DOS6.22 first; this makes trouble-shooting a lot easier in the future... (There are network Pros out there who advise this arrangementas being very handy when 'fixing things...) How big you make the other ('9x/NT) partitions is up to you... (and any limits imposed by the repsective OS's...)

Good luck,

LM-S