Drive letter questions for dual boot 2000/98se

[teddymines]

Having had enough with Windows 98SE instability, I have gone to 2000 with a dual boot for older games. I have a question about drive letters.

Here's what I did: I created a 8mb partition (primary) and a 50mb partition. Formatted the primary as FAT32 and installed 98SE there. Ran the 2000 setup, pointed it to the 50mb partition, chose NTFS, and it installed. Dual boot works fine.

Question is when I boot 2000, my C: drive contains all the 98 files, and D: contains the 2000 files. So if I install programs from 2000, will it default to D: for installation? I know some programs automatically install some files into the Windows\System directory...will these go onto the D: drive?

I want to be assured that programs installed from 2000 stay in that partition. Likewise for 98.

 

[teddymines]

Bump, need answers

 

[AndyHui]

You managed to fit Windows 98 into 8MB and Windows 2000 into 50MB??

Windows is smart enough to point most programs to the correct Program Files folder.

If you install something in Win98, it's up to you as to where it installs its files, but if it does need to place files in the Program Files or any other system folder, it will go to the correct one. The same applies for Windows 2000.

If anything goes to the Windows\System folder, it will always go to the right one. Don't worry about it.

 

[teddymines]

<< You managed to fit Windows 98 into 8MB and Windows 2000 into 50MB?? >>


Typo, I meant to say GB. I've been in MB land for so long that I have a hard time with the concept!

Thanks for your help.