Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 02:49:53 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Dual boot W2K/W98 problems on 110
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Matthew Hanson wrote:
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual boot W2K/W98 problems on 110
I just set up a Fujitsu 80GB HDD in my 110, and have W2K and W98SE dual
booting. But Ive been at it for few days now, and have failed to sort
problems getting audio for Margi DVD-To-Go to play in through the Lib
speaker
in W98. I had no problems with this on my 40GB HDD.
Id like to reformat the W98 partition and reinstall W98, but I see
theres no
files in the root folder for W98 on my D:\ extended partition. Im
worried
that if I reformat and reinstall W98, W2Ks boot loader my not be able to
see
the new W98 installation.
W2K is installed on a ~4GB primary partition as C: .. and W98 is installed
on a
~4GB extended partition D: after the W2K partition. There is a blank
space of
~100MB following D:, and a ~72GB E: extended data partition after that.
I see Phils still reading the list messages (is the server is working),
and
hope he might now how this might work.
It's not simple as you may ruin the W2K boot stuff. This is the wrong
installation order (W98 should be first, then W2K, but now you need to do
it in reverse order....).
I did indeed install W98 1st onto the 2nd, extended partition. That,
because the last time I did this I installed W98 on the 1st, 'primary'
partition, and it seems I had problems when I had to reinstall W2K which had
boot files installed in the C: W98 root. Should I have installed W98as the
1st primary again?
Make sure you can somehow boot into W2K from CD-ROM. That will allow you to
(in a later stage) use the recovery console to run fixboot etc. I never did
that BTW, so others may have better ideas.
I actually just booted from a W98 boot FD, and installed W98 1st from
installation files copied earlier to the E: drive. For the W2K installation,
I ran smartdrv.exe after running the W98 boot FD, and put it on the 1st
primary drive. Perhaps I should have done a bit more research before that.
Is it imperative that I boot from a CD? (In a PC?) Which should be on the
1st partition?
If that's OK, simply reformat D: and reinstall W98.
Then reinstall W2K's boot stuff by booting from the CD-ROM (using the four
floppies IRC) and then do something like repair or recovery console . It's
not that hard, I just forgot how and what exactly.
I've gone the 'recover' route before recentlyv via running winnt.exe from
file on E: in the past. CD-ROM not needed?
BTW I do not read the list very often. My Lib is decommissioned, just
occasionally it's started up.
A guy at work has expressed interest in buying a 110. I'm not all that sure
that at this point it's worth it what with seemingly better alternatives
that David Chien and others have proposed.
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