Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 21:57:12 +0200
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Dual boot W2K/W98 problems on 110
David Chien wrote:
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Dual boot W2K/W98 problems on 110
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.
Interesting....
I have always installed OSs into a primary partition on the HD, not the
extended. I know that W2K/XP/etc - the newer OSs - can be happy in an extended
partition, but older OSs mostly demanded a primary partition.
Hi David, you must be talking about real old OSes...
At least WIN31 can boot from C: (the DOS stuff) but be installed on a
logical D:
That's the way I've got it on most of my PC's. (Win31 can be run through
OS/2, I use WinOS/2 for my parallel scanner which is otherwise not
supported by OS/2).
I'd make two primary paritions, with only one active and visible, the other
not active and hidden. Install each OS into each partition, then use the W2K
loader or Partition Magic PQBOOT, etc. to select which OS to startup on bootup.
Unlike DOS FDISK, Win2K's disk manager will happily make more than one
primary partition; using BootPart one can add the boot stuff from other
partitions to its boot menu.
BTW On my old Libretto pages I have a description of sharing many
software packages between Win98 and Win2K (even IE). Only requirement is
consistent drive letters for each OS.
If you can't see any files in the partition you know there are files:
a) It's either in NTFS format so you can't see it from DOS.
b) You may need a boot loader like EZ DRive to see the HD past a certain
point on your large HD.
<smile - old discussion>
Once W98 has booted, it doesn't need a boot manager, it implements all
int13 extensions needed for > 8GB access by itself. So if you install
Win2K and W98 each into their own 4 GB partition (below the 8 GB limit)
you'll have no problems.
Same goes for Win2K.
c) ? some other reason
..for what?
Anyway, best wishes,
P.
