I had a successful dual boot setup for about a month and my hard drive and motherboard both failed. Now, I have Win98 installed and running on the C: partition and have a hidden partition created by Partition Magic. I also have two other partitions (D: and E:). This is the way that I installed XP before and it allowed me to install to the hidden partition. Now, it will not install to that partition and wants me to delete it and let the install process recreate it. I let it do that this evening and the install went OK but Windows XP ended up on the "H" partition which was not hidden. I did not want that so used Partition Magic to hide the partition. Then, Win XP would not run. I am pretty sure that the reason it would not run is that it was installed to "H" according to it's files but when I hid the partition, the letter changed to "C". I have now removed it but still want to be able to install to that hidden partion. It worked before but I sure cannot get it to work today. I have tried booting from DOS (with CD support) and also installing from Win98. Neither one is allowing this install to proceed. Does anyone have any ideas what I may be doing differently this time? Thanks

The way I did it was to use Partition Magic to partition my drive into 3 Fat32 partitions. On the 1st (C:) I installed Win 98 then I installed XP on my D: drive. The intention (still to do it!) is to convert the "XP" partition to NTFS so that when I'm in Win 98 it doesn't see it and only sees the 3rd partition which is then drive D. Partition Magics "Drive Mapper" takes care of the drive letter associations ie. what was E: will be changed to D: Hope this helps, Regards, Kevin