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 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 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?......