Wally & others, Here's what I found on Google with the search: dual boot win2000 win98:
http://www.guru3d.com/tech/dualboot/ http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/software/windows/dual/ There were other links also. These explain step by step how to do the install. Its basically install win98 first and then win 2000. Keith had mentioned this in his email...isn't it funny how when you have a 50/50 chance to get something right it seems like you always pick the wrong 50...Its more like the odds are 70/30. For me, this is a clean install to make a dual boot system, so to fix my problem, I just formatted the partitions again and started over. I used the 2nd link above and now it works just fine. I get the choice to load either OS with win 2000 being the primary selection, just what I wanted. You have about 30 seconds to decide which OS you want. If you don't make a choice, it loads the primary OS. I also have a 3 partition hard drive. 15GB, 5GB, 5GB. (C,D,E) When I loaded win98 first, it wanted to go to partition C:\, but it gave me the choice so I installed it on the D: since it wasn't my primary OS and I didn't want it on the 15GB area. That worked fine but it did put some system files on C:. I went ahead and installed win2000 on the C: partition and that went fine. Everything is working great...so far... I'm pretty sure you can't install 2 OS's on the same partition, one would try to overwrite the other. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:23 AM Subject: Re: Fw: PCWorks: Dual Boot - Win2000 : Win98SE Roger: If that system that you found on Google works, please let us know what needs to be done. If you will re-read my reply to you under the subject of disk manager dated 03/08/05 you will see that I finally got three operating systems on three different partitions with a steep learning curve. That steep learning curve included exactly what you did with win 2000 and win 98. When you installed win 98 on the second partition without making it the active partition, win 98 had to go through the other partition which was active. In doing so it destroyed the win 2000 installed on that partition. I used the repair feature of win 2000. I first chose use the control console . I found out that this was a fancy name for the keyboard with a prompt but did not have a clue as to what commands were available. I went back an chose to let it do the repair however it wanted. I had to do it twice. The first time it did not work. I do not remember being offered a dual boot system after the repair. Thomas said that win 2000 offered a boot manager for a dual boot system but I have not been able to find it. I think I read somewhere that for dual booting of these operating systems, that it can be done by installing both of them on the same partition in the correct order. Is this the system that you found on Google? Wally On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:10:37 -0600 "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks Keith... > > > I'm replying to my own post since I kinda put the buggy before the > horse.... > I did a search on google after the fact and found some info there on > how to > make this work. > Sorry to bother you with this post...If I can't make the other info > work, I > may post this again. > > Thanks, > > Roger > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:27 PM > Subject: PCWorks: Dual Boot - Win2000 : Win98SE > > > Hello, > > Is their any trick to making a dual boot , Win2000 and Win98SE > work? > The PC is an Athlon 1200 with an ASUS A7A266 mb, 512 DDR Ram. > I have 3 partitions on a 25 gig drive, all FAT32. I installed Win > 2000 on > drive C:\ first. > That went OK and it worked. I then installed Win 98SE on drive D:\. > That went OK except when I boot up, it goes directly to Win 98 > without > giving me a > choice of OS. Here's where I probably screwed up...I thought I would > try to > fix it and used the "fix installation" option on the Win2000 install > CD. I > went into that and selected "repair an installation" and then > selected > "using the control console". I chose the command "fixboot" and ran > it. It > did its thing and now when I boot up I get the choice of Win2000 or > Win98, > with Win98 being the primary choice. If I pick Win 2000, it loads > just fine. > If I pick, Win98, I get an I/O Error for the boot sector. I decided > tonight > to reload Win 98SE on drive D:\ and have done that now. I'm back to > the part > now of where it boots directly to Win98 without giving me a choice > of OS. I > would like to be able to have a dual boot with Win 2000 being the > primary > selection. Do I need to install some other boot manager? I figured > the one > in Win 2000 would be able to handle this. Any thoughts > appreciated... ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
