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Win NT and Win 98 duel boot
Name: Sean Moore Date: May 24, 1999 at 00:57:08 Pacific
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I have Windows NT Workstation 4 installed on my PC with a 8 gig HDD and running an NTFS file system (2gig used) I want to have a duel boot of Win NT and Win98. I have partition magic 4 installed on my PC and would like step by step instructions on creating a partition for win98, installing win98 and then getting it to duel boot. Thank you in advance
Name: Sean Moore Date: May 24, 1999 at 02:42:27 Pacific
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Also would it be worth purchasing Winternals (www.winternals.com/products/fat32.shtml) FAT32 for WinNT 4 to enable me to access a fat32 partition from an NTFS partition?
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Response Number 2
Name: Edsko Hekman Date: May 26, 1999 at 03:14:00 Pacific
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An article which describes what seems to be exactly what you want can be found at: http://www.winplanet.com/features/howtos/ntdirectboot/ I have a multiple boot (DOS, Win98 and NT) which works fine. I just seem to remember that the article does not mention '98 but '95, but the procedure is the same. I did not change the necessary switches for the 'bootsect'-settings from '95 to '98. One tip: NT can not read FAT-32 formatted disks, but there are utilities which enable DOS/'98 to read NTFS-disks.
I have duel boot working with NT on and NTFS partition and Win98 on a fat32 with another Fat32 partition which both operating systems can access (I used the winternals software) for the boot manager I used PowerQuest BootMagic and set which partitions would be visable and It worked fine. Cheers for your help ne way but that site was not v.informative.
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Response Number 4
Name: Kim, MSCE Date: May 28, 1999 at 19:14:24 Pacific
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Microsoft recommends when u dual boot the NT be the LAST OS installed. Nor do they support FAT32.
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Response Number 5
Name: Pete, MCSE Date: May 28, 1999 at 23:08:07 Pacific
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I have them dual booted. not a problem. just use Partition magic to "Prepare for New operating system. Make it a FAT partition and then make it active, boot into it and install NT. Then boot back into 98 and install Boot magic...works great for me
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Response Number 6
Name: Mark Kravtsov Date: April 19, 2000 at 12:26:30 Pacific
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I have HP 8565C computer with hard drive 30GB I want to have duel boot which is WINDOWS98 and WINNT. I portition my drive at the beggining 4 FAT16 Partitions. Installed WINDOWS 98 on one and WINNT40 on second.Each portition is 2GB. While I started to create one more FAT16 portition NT is crashing. How I could use the rest of my hard drive in Windows NT ?????
I Used SYSTEM COMMANDER.
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Response Number 7
Name: RogueSoldier Date: September 14, 2000 at 12:38:26 Pacific
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For All of you that are having problems.... Fdisk.... Format your drive and Fdisk... Then set your partition to whatever you want... See-ya Damn Boss caught me
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