- Jan 28, 2001
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I presently have a dual boot setup on one Maxtor D740x ata 133 hd. Problem is programs that I have on XP and also installed as a backup on 98Se, won't run on SE.
They kick me back to the desktop in SE. It's only the common programs that do this. It's a 60 gig drive that I have partitioned as follows:
FAT 32
C: Win 98se
D: MP3's, Games
E: Programs- data
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NTFS
F: XP Home Ed.
G: Games, Multimedia
H: Important data
Would installing os's on their own drives fix the problem. How would I go about it? I'm also using a Promise ATA 133 controller card just to add to the confusion. I'm thinking that I have to reformat and repartion XP in fat 32 using the entire Maxtor drive. I reformat my WD ata 66 drive for Win98se and intall them as a WD (master) and Maxtor (slave) on my primary IDE controller. I install 98se on the WD (fat 32) and XP on the Maxtor while reformatting to NTFS. I load the ata 133 drivers while setting up XP ( F6 ) and then load the drivers onto 98se. I then shutdown and move both drives to the ata 133 controller and set the Maxtor to master and the WD to slave. Will this give me the dual boot option?
FAT 32
C: Win 98se
D: MP3's, Games
E: Programs- data
-----------------------
NTFS
F: XP Home Ed.
G: Games, Multimedia
H: Important data
Would installing os's on their own drives fix the problem. How would I go about it? I'm also using a Promise ATA 133 controller card just to add to the confusion. I'm thinking that I have to reformat and repartion XP in fat 32 using the entire Maxtor drive. I reformat my WD ata 66 drive for Win98se and intall them as a WD (master) and Maxtor (slave) on my primary IDE controller. I install 98se on the WD (fat 32) and XP on the Maxtor while reformatting to NTFS. I load the ata 133 drivers while setting up XP ( F6 ) and then load the drivers onto 98se. I then shutdown and move both drives to the ata 133 controller and set the Maxtor to master and the WD to slave. Will this give me the dual boot option?