If you are adding NT and not 2k, you may run into some problems with a FAT32 boot
partition. NT needs NTFS or FAT16 and I believe the boot point for NT has to be within
the first 8GB of the drive if I recall. To pull this off you may need three
partitions, a FAT16 booting partition, the FAT32 win98 install, and your NTFS
partition for NT. It may make it easier if you look at some third party boot managers
as well. That may allow you to get around some of the limitations of both NT and 98.
The other option is running Windows 2000, which coexists with Win98 and FAT32 much
better.
-Tim VanDeWalle
Information Systems/Product Testing
Evergreen Technologies, Inc
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-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dual booting NT with Windows 98 on a FAT32 partition
More details. Are you wanting to set up NT in the same partition as 98?
Either way, it shouldn't be hard. Just make sure they are in different
directories and it won't write over your stuff.
Ben Winzenz, MCSE
Network/Systems Administrator
Peregrine Systems, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Bachelder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Dual booting NT with Windows 98 on a FAT32 partition
Hi all,
I have a laptop with a large drive (30GB) that has Windows 98 on a FAT32
partition of about 10GB and the other 20GB has Ghost images for backups and
some testing scenarios. I would love to be able to repartition this
machine so I can add NT to this machine but I'm not sure of the best way to
do this without losing the 98 setup. PartitionMagic 4.0 was initially used
to setup the drives on this machine so that is available to me.
Has anyone done this or seen any good documentation on how to accomplish
this without losing my 98 configuration?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin Bachelder
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