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dual booting XP pro and 98 SE

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HotKetchup

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I have a brand new 80gb WD as my primary that I want to install XP pro on. I also have an old 20gb Seagate that I want to install 98 SE on. The Seagate was used in a previous computer so I don't know what's on it. What's the best way to do this?
 
I have XP Pro and 98SE installed on one (master) hdd. The second (slave) HDD is used as data store. My system is therefore dual boot.

Not sure if you can dual boot with one operating system on master HDD and another operating system on slave HDD.

Do you want dual boot? Any particular reason why you don't want two OS's on the master HDD?
 
Sure you can. Put the 20 gig in and the 80. Make sure they are both empty. Use a floppy to boot 98 and install in the 20 gb drive (you can specify on install) THEN install XP, and it should allow the auto-setup of dual boot when you choose that option.
 
Make sure your XP drive is formated in NTFS, if windows 98 can see it, that can be very bad, i've had to destroy windows xp.
 
Yeah,

I've got XP home on my master drive, and XP Pro on my slave drive.

XP home is purely for in case i mess up my Pro installation, I have something that I know how to work very well, has most of the functionality of my other OS, and is highly configured as it was my previous install.

However, if your DBing 98SE and XP, install both using FAT32 (16?), and install 98SE first.
 
Yea, leave all the drives fat32 (fat16 is old and only allows 2gb partitions max) if you want both OSes to see each other's partitions and data.
 
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