- May 5, 2001
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OK I tried something for the sake of learning myself the do's and don'ts. Now some of you know this already, that is great, but others don't. But I would accept any corrections from anyone.
I dual booted a system with Windows 98SE and W2k. Both on FAT32 filesystem. No problems. It should be noted that Win98 was on a 2GB drive and W2k was on a 1.28GB Drive. So physically seperate hard drives.
I then proceeded to convert the file system in W2k to NTFS and test the dual booting and Win98 operation afterwards. To convert was easy as pie. Open a Command prompt in W2k and then type the following : convert D: /fs:ntfs , hit enter and it will prompt you for the Volume of the D: drive (or whatever letter your drive happends to be). Then it will ask you to reboot and do so. Then reboot and w2k will convert it.
But here is the catch which I sadly discoverd today. Thank god for Partition Magic. I tried the same thing on my main system. Where W98 & W2k were on the same drive but different partitions. And bang! Lost W98 Bootability. W2k was fine. So it is true, you can do the FAT32/NTFS together, but on seperate physical hard drives. (Which I think is stupid).
Anyhow, hope this was informative...if not. Oh well.
I dual booted a system with Windows 98SE and W2k. Both on FAT32 filesystem. No problems. It should be noted that Win98 was on a 2GB drive and W2k was on a 1.28GB Drive. So physically seperate hard drives.
I then proceeded to convert the file system in W2k to NTFS and test the dual booting and Win98 operation afterwards. To convert was easy as pie. Open a Command prompt in W2k and then type the following : convert D: /fs:ntfs , hit enter and it will prompt you for the Volume of the D: drive (or whatever letter your drive happends to be). Then it will ask you to reboot and do so. Then reboot and w2k will convert it.
But here is the catch which I sadly discoverd today. Thank god for Partition Magic. I tried the same thing on my main system. Where W98 & W2k were on the same drive but different partitions. And bang! Lost W98 Bootability. W2k was fine. So it is true, you can do the FAT32/NTFS together, but on seperate physical hard drives. (Which I think is stupid).
Anyhow, hope this was informative...if not. Oh well.