I am trying to install NT on my home system for the MCSE courses that I am taking and I seem to be having quite a few problems with installing, booting, and running these different OS’s. A reply to one of my posts on “Multiple OS’s” from member name ‘hireintelligence” stated that he was running with NT on one partition and Windows on the other. I have followed closely the steps in the MS Knowledgebase article Q243896, “How to Dual boot…” at
http://support.microsoft.com/support...-US&SD=gn&FR=0

But I receive the error message when choosing NT 4 from the dual boot menu: “<winnt root>\system\ntoskrnl.exe cannot be found. Please reinstall from disks or CD.”

I have also tried, via FDISK, to create three 2GB partitions on my 6.4GB hard drive so I could install Workstation, Server, and lastly Windows 98. My problem here is that I do not see an option when booting to choose an OS from multiple OS’s. My system simply boots straight to Windows 98.

My questions are:
1.) Do Workstation and server have to reside on separate partitions?
2.) Is there REALLY a need for Workstation if Server is installed?
3.) With either 2 or 3 partitions, how do I invoke the dual boot option?
4.) Has anyone had experience, good or bad with the MS Knowledgebase Article above?
5.) I am considering installing a second, larger, hard drive since my 6.4GB is no longer enough. Would putting these OS’s on different hard drives make matters less complicated ?

I would really appreciate some advice and/or “step-by-step” instructions {or links to something similar} from someone who is implementing this on their system. I thought this would be the easiest module in the course but it is turning out to be a bear! I thank you for you time and effort and I do apologize for posting multiple questions on this topic. I would really like to get my system back up and running rather than sitting “blank and in the dark” like I am on this installation.

Thanks Again,

Jeff