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superman59
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December 15th, 2004 16:00
Duel-Boot with Two Different HDs??
Hi,
Is it possible to install Win98 & Win Xp with two separated HDs,and make it as duel-boot system. I have Dell dimension 2400 running Xp Home with Sp2. I want to ad (attach)a 5GB/HD to this Dell system and install Win98 to it. because I have a Software which was not existing any more in the market, (that means there is no updates or packs for it to with XP/SP2) it does not work with XP/SP2 that is why i have this thought. any idea of this matter,will be very appreciated. thank you.
Kent
Is it possible to install Win98 & Win Xp with two separated HDs,and make it as duel-boot system. I have Dell dimension 2400 running Xp Home with Sp2. I want to ad (attach)a 5GB/HD to this Dell system and install Win98 to it. because I have a Software which was not existing any more in the market, (that means there is no updates or packs for it to with XP/SP2) it does not work with XP/SP2 that is why i have this thought. any idea of this matter,will be very appreciated. thank you.
Kent
RichardLusignan
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Posted December 15th, 2004 19:00
Absolutely,
You'd then have: Primary HD and Secondary HD. No problem there, simply adjust jumper settings on the HDs accordingly (i.e. Primary set to "master" and secondary set to "slave").
What I would do, as per recommend by Microsoft, is to have both HD in the computer and start the installation of Windows 98 on the secondary HD using FAT32 file system. When the installation is complete, I would install Windows XP on the primary HD using NTFS file system.
Be aware though that Windows XP will be able to read the Win98 FAT32 disk but not the other way around. When you will boot in Win98, you won't see the WinXP NTFS disk. (Although there are third-party programs which will do that).
I'll try and keep you posted on the step-by-step link.
Rick
RichardLusignan
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Posted December 15th, 2004 19:00
I have this from Microsoft at hand:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/meandxp.mspx
But I will try to find another step-by-step procedure which I had a link to a while back. I'll try to post it soon.
Best regards,
Rick
superman59
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Posted December 15th, 2004 19:00
Richard, thank you for quick reply.
do you have website or resourse that recommend to me, so i can follow procedure. thank you again.
Kent
superman59
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Posted December 15th, 2004 19:00
Richard,
one thing want to remind, i will install Win89se into a single HD and Xp install into another single HD, they use a same IDE cable. is that possible?
Kent
Never_Grew_up
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Posted December 16th, 2004 23:00
Why would you install Win 98 with Fat32 and XP with NTFS? While I normally use NTFS with XP, if I dual-boot, I use Fat32 for both Windows versions so files such as photos and documents can be used between both operating systems. I've done dual boots on single drive systems and systems with two hard drives. Either one works equally well. It is best to install Windows 98 first and then install XP. XP has a boot manager that upon power-on, will ask you which Windows version you wish to use at that time. Windows 98 does not have this feature, which is why they must be installed in such an order. Feel free to step on my toes here if I've missed something.P.S. Two hard drives on a single cable is not problem. Just set up the 98 hard drive as the master and the XP hard drive as the slave.Message Edited by Never_Grew_up on 12-16-2004 07:38 PM
Never_Grew_up
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Posted December 16th, 2004 23:00
Message Edited by Never_Grew_up on 12-16-2004 07:34 PM
RichardLusignan
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Posted December 15th, 2004 16:00
Yes, it is easily achievable.
You could even put both OS on the same disk, although 2HDD will surely be best as you can have your Win98 in FAT32 and your WinXP in NTFS file systems.
Windows XP has a boot loader built-in in the boot.ini file at the root of C:\ so you can easily edit the file to show Win98 and WinXP in a startup menu and choose whatever OS at each boot-up.
Rick