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XP/98 Dual boot without reinstall?
Name: eas98 Date: March 23, 2002 at 08:30:46 Pacific
Comment:
I asked a similar question earlier, and thanks to those who responded, but I have some concerns.
The situation is that I have existing XP and 98 systems. I want to bring the drives from my 98 to my XP system, and make the XP system a dual boot. I DO NOT want to reinstall anything. Many of you on this board recommend OSL2000, but XP support is not mentioned on their website.
Does anyone here have a similar setup? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Name: peter Date: March 23, 2002 at 17:11:26 Pacific
Reply:
OK here goes...but it does work Make the HD with 98 on it the "C" drive at the end of the cable Make XP HD the slave to "C" lets say "D" make sure the BIOS recognizes them Now when you reboot you should get 98 because you'r booting off the "C" From within 98 re-install XP over itself using the repair option.This will fix the MBR and create Boot.ini on "C" reboot and you should have a choice of OS if not post back and we'll have you check the boot.ini file luck
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