Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Win 98 alongside (and after ) xp?
Name: Naveen Date: December 21, 2005 at 02:09:30 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: p3
Comment:
Hi, I have Xp in one of my boxes on C:\ . I want to dual boot it with Win 98/2000 in any other drive without disturbing the xp installation. the reverse i'v done before, but trying this seems a bit risky (as a few programs on xp can't be uninstalled - the data cannot be lost). how to go about it, preferably without a third party boot loader? I remember coming across scripts on bootdisk.com, enabling the above, a few years ago, but can't find them now. Its urgent.
Name: Richard59 Date: December 21, 2005 at 04:15:52 Pacific
Reply:
Is the XP in a FAT32 or NTFS partition? If it's fat then www.dougknox.com has instructions for installing 98/me after XP without third party bootloaders. As for 2k ? Well it is an NT based system so you should be able to instal it in another partition and if necessary manually add it to the boot.ini file without disturbing XP.
I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.
0
Response Number 2
Name: Naveen Date: December 21, 2005 at 04:32:24 Pacific
Reply:
Thanx a lot Richard. XP is in FAT32. I'll look into the site u said.
Naveen
0
Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: December 21, 2005 at 04:46:12 Pacific
Reply:
There's also another excellent site (Daniel Petri MVP) that explains it all ...
Name: domass Date: December 21, 2005 at 19:54:28 Pacific
Reply:
If you really don't want to disturb your XP installation unplug it and install 98/2000 dual boot on another hard drive then plug the XP back in and switch back and forth between them in the bios.
Summary: Other than the duel boot option at the beginning of the boot up, can Win 98 be installed after XP and run on a different HD? (for older games) Thanks Hotrods ...
Summary: Hi, My server is a dual boot having win 98 se and win XP. I want to default win98 instead of winXP. So that whenever machine starts it automitacally goes into win 98 as all by internet settings is don...
Summary: i have used to have windows 98 and now have xp but i have found that cd-r disks made on win 98 wont work on xp, and xp on recognises them as blank discs. Is there anyway of rectifying this? ...
0 
movie land
