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fishingeek

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I just got a copy of 98SE and want to run a dual boot with 2000. What tips can you guys give me for doing this? I have never done a partition before so any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Fishingeek
 
First of all, you need to determine the size of your partitions and how many you are going to need. These easiest option is to use fdisk (found on the 98 bootdisk), but I believe you can only form 2 partitions with it. After creating your partitions, install Windows 98 first. When complete, install Windows 2000. Win 2k automatically creates a dual boot setup for you while 98 does not. If you use fdisk, remember to use fat32 ("enable support for large disks&quot😉. List in your thread what partitions you wish to create and I'm sure there will be many users who will give you some extra advice.
 
You can create more than two partitions using FDISK.

I'm guessing you doing this dual boot clean.
After formatting, boot up with the win98 start up disk. To partition, type in FDISK. Say yes to enable large disk support, and create a primary partition. Then follow the directions to create a logical disk drive/extended partition. I forget the exact words, but you have to create a secondary logical disk drive or something, and then from there create the extended partitions. You'll also want to follow the directions to set the main partition as the active partition.

Now before you go on. Figure out how you will want to use this set up in the future. If you will be using Win2K more than Win98 (in my case and in most cases) you might want to install Win98 on the D: and install Win2K on the C: just for organizing purposes. I have my Win2K on the E drive and Win98 on the C drive and the organization drives me nuts.

What I would do is create at least three partitions. Use C: partition for Win2k, D: for Win98 and E: for back up purposes. For Win98, for OS and some games, I would recommend about 3gigs. For Win2k, for OS and some programs I would recommend at least 5gigs. I try to leave as much space for the back up drive as possible.

Now that you have finished partition, reboot and install Win98 on the D: or whichever drive you want. After finishing the install, install Win2K on the C:. You can just start the Win2K installation within Win98. You'll want to install new. Not upgrade, or it'll install over Win98.

I can't really think of anything else... if you have more questions just ask...
 
Thanks for the replys. I have 2 harddrive. One is a 18g scsi the I thought I would slit in half and put 98 on one and 2000 on the other. I will use the 30g IDE as a drive to install programs and data on. I plan on putting all my games on 98 and all my programs on 2000. Do you think I should spit the 2nd hard drive too. I do plan on putting games and programs on it. Thanks again for the help.

Fishingeek
 
I would split the SCSI drive into a 1 gig 98 partition a 3 gig 2k partition, leave the rest as a backup and/or data drive (partition it however you see fit) and then use the IDE drive for programs and data. You can install all your software to the same directory from both 98 and 2k and they will work in both OS'es(assuming you keep the IDE drive formatted fat32.)
 
Here's how I'd do it:

18GB:

2gb -- Windows 98 (formatted FAT32)
3gb -- Windows 2000 (formatted FAT32)
rest -- backup, downloads, whatever

30GB

*GB -- games (formatted FAT32) <-- however many GB you need for games
*GB -- apps (formatted FAT32) <-- however many GB you need for apps
*GB -- the rest
 
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