Dual booting Win98 & WinXP.

[AnAndAustin]

DUAL BOOTING Win98 & WinXP:

😕 Format harddisk to 2 FAT32 partitions (eg. 20GB HD split 16GB & 4GB). Install Win98SE to 'D:\Windows' on the second (4GB) partition. Stick in the WinXP CD, chose 'Advanced' Fresh Install and specify 'C:\Windows' (16GB). It will install and give the option to dual boot. Just edit C:\BOOT.INI and alter 'Windows' to 'Windows 98SE', just to avoid confusion.

😛 IT WORKS! Just rem, if you want to use sw in both OS's, install it in both OS's. You should be fine to install all sw to 'C:\Program Files\xxx' to save duplicating files and wasting disk space. Only exceptions would be when sw wants to use seperate NT & 9x files or if you use NTFS for WinXP, then just install sw on both C: & D:.

😎 If you want Win98 & WinXP to coexist; do install them on seperate partitions, do use fresh installs, don't bother trying anything else (like I did), it just isn't worth it!

Hope this helps the guys out there who want full compatability. 😉

 

[wjsulliv]

Wow, you know (and needed to share) all that without reading the FAQ's?

That was a little mean and sarcastic, but really, if you had read the FAQ's you would know they say the same thing.

 

[AnAndAustin]

😉 Hey man, peace.

:disgust: However you seem to assume that I only use this Forum. I don't. I've posted this on the forums I use and I'm afraid I haven't time to scour through all FAQs on all sites. I did however flick through the FAQs but must have missed it.

😛 I did however search the whole bloody Internet and found no specific info on this which is why I had to sort it out myself.

:frown: M$ site was (and still is) useless. Many of the other sites I found simply didn't work. Things like, "Win95 (and 98) are NT Aware and as such will automatically recognise an NT OS and set up a dual boot feature". That was true, still wouldn't bloody boot Win9x though.

I appologise for not catching this in the FAQs (it would have saved me a lot of time and headaches too), but they do usually only contain obvious facts aimed at beginners to moderate users. Not only that but this site is by far the SLOWEST that I use, frankly I'm sure if I scoured through all of the FAQs I wouldn't have time to reply to any posts, here nor any other forum. I'm sure it's my ISP that give this problem as nobody else seems to suffer, I am a broadband user though, so small waits now seem very long.

😉 Besides, how many people do you know who post without reading the FAQs, at least I tried and looked over the past posts too for any previous coverage on Win98&WinXP duall booting, most people don't even bother doing that.

😀 Again, sorry for anybody who read the FAQs and already knew it but hopefully there are some people who have found this useful.

ANYWAY, I have just been through the FAQs and have only found:

How do I repair a Win2K and WinXP dual boot? (NOT set up a WinXP & Win9x dual boot, totally different.)
How do I install Win9x AFTER installing Win2K? (AGAIN this doesn't cover what I have covered, and I found that it was Win98SE that had probs so repairing the NTboot wouldn't have helped.)

😕 Of course I could still have missed it. Wjsulliv, care to point me to it, or should I be sarcastic to you, you alternative name for a door handle.

 

[wjsulliv]

wow, I stand corrected. The FAQ I was refering too seems to no longer be there... I've got it printed out and use it when I need it.

AnAndAustin - My point was that your post, while informative, has been covered here, and recently. I thought it was covered in the FAQ's, but regardless of that, it has about 20 other posts here in the forum, some of them more complete than yours.

Just try searching for dual boot instead of specificaly win98 and winXP dual boot and you'll see what I mean.

FYI, you will not be drawing me into some sort of shouting/sh@t throwing match he online by calling me names or making poor references/comparisions between me and other topics. Threads like that get locked and ignored, which I will now be doing to this one.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I guess I'm partially at fault here. Andy has been yanking on me for a year or more now. I still have my "Dissertation on Partitioning" (includes exotic multi-booting scenario) on my machine somewhere. I've just never polished it up for FAQdom.

-SUO