In Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP: NTLDR and BOOT.INI form the Windows NT bootloader system. This system can accomodate multiple installations of Windows and boot to the appropriate OS on multiple partitons and drives over IDE or SCSI simultaneously.
NTDLR is the bootstrap loader (similar to OS2LDR). It reads the BOOT.INI configuration file and displays a menu on bootup. If only one OS is configured the menu does not appear. When you install Windows XP, Setup automatically can add Windows 98 into the BOOT.INI file, if you choose to keep the installation and create a new install of Windows XP. When you run SETUP, just tell Windows XP which partition or drive it will be installed to and SETUP will configure the rest. NOTE: Windows 98 can't read NTFS, if you install Windows XP on an NTFS partition, you will only be able to copy files across from Windows XP. Windows 98 will only see its own partition and assign no drive letter to the other drive. (Drive letters represent only mounted file systems in Windows; Windows XP can unmount file systems on the fly, except the system partition) --- In [email protected], Rick Maninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to dual boot two versions of Windows? > > A friend has asked me to upgrade his PC to XP but > wishes to retain 98se. Rather than partition the > existing HD I considered installing a second HD with > XP installed but am not sure how to select the > required OS on start-up. > > Advice welcome please. I know how to do it with > Linux/Windows but not Windows only ;-) > > Rick > > -- > Powered by SuSe Linux 9.2 Pro. > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
