win98 dual boot question

[st-ajora]

i was wondering if it is possible to dual boot windows 98 with either windows 95 or windows ME. if so could you please help me?

[shadow1]

Try partition magic www.powerquest.com (http://www.powerquest.com) there are also a lot of other progs for partitioning. Partition magic is good.

[st-ajora]

i already know how to partition my HD. i was just wondering if windows 98 and windows 95/ME can be dual booted together

[Kenteth420]

You can dual boot them if you have boot managing software. Partition magic does a lot more than let you partition hard drives, one of the things it has is a boot manager.

[st-ajora]

how do i get it to work though

last time i tried it would only load up one of the partitions at the start. when i wen to the Boot Magic proggy it didn't recognize the second partition as having an OS on it. (When I tried Win 95 and Win 98 it only read Win 98. When I tried Win 98 and Win ME it only read Win ME)

[3fingersalute]

System Commander works good, another way to go is get a removable HD tray and use 2 different HD's, and have a 3rd drive slaved to the tray for storing files needed by both OS's...it'll cause a lot less confusion!

[42Crashit]

I use the two drive system have removable hard drives in tray. Works great for me and can hange hard drives in bios.

[ReBoot]

It's possible, but a PITA, unless you have two hard drives.
Mount drive one as primary master, install ME.
Go get a boot manager from www.xosl.org (http://www.xosl.org) it's free, and GUI driven.
Set the default boot to your second drive, install 98 (or any other OS).
PM's boot manager will do this also, but will allow a boot from a secondary partition as well.

[st-ajora]

alright cool. since i only have one HD i am going to check out that link. thanks.

[st-ajora]

alright. i installed xosl, installed Win 98 and Win ME and restored xosl. When I get to the boot manager screen i setup which partitions to load but no matter what it loads up the partition with Windows 98 on it. How can i resolve this?

[ReBoot]

I didn't say XOSL would work with only one HD, I said (albeit not that clearly) that you'll need PM or similar to boot two primary OS's from one drive. Sorry if I was confusing.
You MUST install ME as the primary OS on C, it just won't install anywhere else, and doesn't play well with others.
You might get a second OS on another partition using XOSL, but no guarantees.

[KINGofBLEH]

Originally posted by reboot:
I didn't say XOSL would work with only one HD, I said (albeit not that clearly) that you'll need PM or similar to boot two primary OS's from one drive. Sorry if I was confusing.
You MUST install ME as the primary OS on C, it just won't install anywhere else, and doesn't play well with others.
You might get a second OS on another partition using XOSL, but no guarantees.

Awe screw it! Just build three beaters and run them all on seperate machines like me ;) It's much less of a headache. LOL (J/K)

[EvilCabbage]

might be an odd question, but with all the bollocking about you would be doing getting it to work, why bother?......