I have a PC with Windows2000 Pro pre-installed. How can I add Win98SE (dual boot) to this configuration?
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I have a PC with Windows2000 Pro pre-installed. How can I add Win98SE (dual boot) to this configuration?
Yes you can !
but it's not easy !!!
I can explain it to you but I need to know some fact first :
number of Hard -Disks
Hard disk Sizes
How they're partiotioned.
It's one hard disk, 15 Gb and one partition. My copy of PartitionMagic does not work with W2K.
The alternative is to replace W2K with Win98
sorry man,
if you can't change the way the partitions are divided it won't help.
in case you do have a way to change it here's the steps to do a multi-boot after you installed Win2k...
explanation:
in order for Windows 2000 to load another OS it needs to have a file called "boolsect.dos" (or any other file name the boot record info)
when you install Win2k Over another OS the setup creates this file automatically.
my explanation will show you how to create such file. (it's handy ofr many things..)
1. Install Windows NT/Win2k on drive C: (create upto 4GB of primary active partition and format it with NTFS -preferred)
2. boot from a win98 boot disk and run Fdisk
3. create an Active (!) FAT32 primary partition. Format this partition.
**Since Windows 98 can't "see" NTFS for them this is drive C: (neat isn't it ? )
4.install win98 on this partition.
5. now you can swith between the 2 OS with Fdisk (select which is the Active - the NTFS or FAT32)
6. switch the NTFS partition to "Active" - boot win 2k and assign the FAT32 drive the letter D:
7. open c:\boot.ini and add
c:\bootsect.dos="Microsoft Windows 98"
close and save
8. reboot and swtich the active partition to the FAT 32.
but now for the magic ....
6. Creating the Bootsect file ....
7. boot in to the Windows 98 and switch to command promt
8. type debug [enter]
9.type L 100 3 0 1 [enter] ***** See note at the end .
10. type N C:\BOOTSECT.DOS [enter]
11. type R BX [enter]
12. type 0 [enter] (it's Zero !)
13. type R CX [enter]
14. type 200 [enter]
15. type W [enter]
16. type Q [enter]
17. reboot and switch to Win 2k again (with FDisk)
18. boot to Win 2k and copy d:\bootsect.dos to drive c:
19. rebbot and try to load Windows 98 from the menu .
if it doesn't work you need to change the line in step 9 to :
L 100 2 0 1 [enter]
and repeat all other setps after that.
Good luck !
Thank you, I will try it!
Easy way
Install Win98, then once it is working, rerun Win2k as a REPAIR INSTALLATION. This will rebuild the boot files for you.
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hahahaha Talk about reinventing the wheel...
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00111111.11001000.10001110.10011010
11111111.11111111.11111111.11111000
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Subnetting is key.
Very inventive though!! https://forums.windrivers.com/
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00111111.11001000.10001110.10011010
11111111.11111111.11111111.11111000
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Subnetting is key.
Its not recommended that Windows 2000 be installed on the same drive as another Windows OS.
Same drive is OK, as long as it is a different partition.
My oopps, that's right, different partitions not drives, apologies for the confusion.