how to ADD win98 or winMe ... when I already have win2k?

santokki

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I have a 13GB HD. It's partitioned to 11 GB NTFS and 2 GB FAT32. I'm currently using Win2k only.

I'd like to add Win98 or WinME so that I can dual boot. How can I do this?

I hope the only way isn't to reformat -> install Win98/ME -> install Win2k allowing dual boot ...

 

murdock2525

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Technically that is the only way... It can be done tho...
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You can install 98 and then do an MBR restore to get the NT loader back.......
Look at the top for users logged on... Look for Bacillis or Flockster...
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HellDesk

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The Win2K bootloader will pick up the presence of any Win98-clones installed and put them in the boot.ini.
however, since you've already installed W2K, I'd say write an image of your current MBR (any good linux how-to will show you the ropes & tools for this), install Windows Me, save the new MBR.
Afterwards install Lilo or Grub, and insert a menu-option that loads the two images you've saved.
(again: How-To).

Or you could just go with the 'reinstall the thing'-crowd.

 

IamDavid

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Do a search, this has been covered many,many times. SUOrange has a great post about it.