Please help!! Installing WinNT with 98 locks up

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Please help!! Installing WinNT with 98 locks up

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Name: Joe
Date: February 23, 2000 at 21:50:28 Pacific
Subject: Please help!! Installing WinNT with 98 locks up

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Hello all,
I have a 20gig seagate drive, i have installed win98 on the C(Fat32) drive 5gig, I made another partition with WinNT setup(2gig NTFS), formated the drive & copies all the files.
"Now when i reboot to complete the GUI based setup, the system comes to 'Verifying DMI pool' and it hangs there."
Am i doing something wrong, Please help!
Appretiate all suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
Joe

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Response Number 1

Name: Carlos
Date: February 24, 2000 at 01:59:46 Pacific

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Hi Joe,
Windows NT can't see partitions formatted with FAT32, so you need to have c:\ with fat16(2gb) as primary partition. Thus you will be able to have dual boot win 98/NT.

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