[RESOLVED] Duel Boot Setup - Win98 and NT4

[Bourby]

I want to have NT4 and Win98-SE installed on my PC with a boot option on startup.

Now, I've done this before, and I know the easiest way is to install 98 .. then put NT over the top and it will figure it out .. but I have NT setup pretty much how I want it. So, I want to know a way of installing '98 on this HD and setup a duel boot.

Note - I want Win98 to install on a different partition(for space purposes).

I've setup the partitions, and have NT running on the current boot partition .. what's my next step.!

Cheers.

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[Darren Wilson]

Install 98 on the partition that you require it to be on , thn rerun the NT setup from the bootdisks and REPAIR existing installation. Works for me

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[Bourby]

Cheers .. Will give it a go .! ..



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[Bourby]

Good idea .. one problem is ..

When I go to do the win98-se install .. it does the initial part of the installed(scandisk), then asks for a reboot .. where normally it would initial the install after the reboot, but it just goes straight into NT, like it's not writing to the boot record .. any other suggestions? .

Cheers,
Bourbs.


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[JeanneD]

I have done it before just like Darren said, and have also had people do it by accident reinstalling dos or windows after an NT install then no NT comes up. Try temp renaming boot.ini so it doesn't see NT till you are done (or if you know what to do just edit it to be correct for a dual-boot, easier to just rename it temp. tho). When you run repair on NT after 98 install there are four options on what to repair, I would only do repair startup envir and boot, it will fix boot.ini and other boot files. I wouldn't repair anything system or registry or you might have big troubles. By the way you may want to create a repair disk (rdisk) in NT before you do this if you haven't already, makes life a little easier if you have a current one, an old one will just mess you up worse don't even use it



[This message has been edited by JeanneD (edited November 21, 1999).]