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Help with dual boot

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Dhawk

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Could someone tell me the best way to do this? I want to set up dual boot on my machine with WinXP PRO and Win98SE.

I currently have just XP installed on a single 13gig HD using the whole drive as a single partition. It is formatted using NTFS.

I have another 8.4gig HD that I would like to install Win98SE on.

I have never set up a dual boot system before and have a few questions:

1- Will there be any problems because I already have the XP drive set up as a NTFS partition and the 98SE drive will have to be Fat32?

2- Both drives would be set up on IDE1. Does it matter which one is master and which one is slave?

3- Would I just be better off just reformatting both drives and doing clean installs of both OS's.

4- Anything else I should know before I do this?

Thanks

 
Both WinXP and Windows 98 need a few files to be on the primary active partition of the boot drive.

Since you have already installed WinXP on an NTFS partition, things will be difficult. If you want WinXP's dual boot menu to operate correctly, you must have both drives connected at installation.

Your primary active partition on the boot drive must be FAT32 in order for you to install WinXP.
 
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