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how to make a dual booting Comp.

z1ggy

z1ggy

Lifer
I have never done a dual boot before but I have a person who needs me to format there hard drive for them with a dual boot of XP and 98. Is there any forums, websites or somebody here who can help me out?
 
Update..I read into the dual boot with 98/XP and it seems fairly straight forward..so now a new question..

I plan to use my old 160gb HD..I will reformat it and then install the dualboot on my computer..but then if I physically remove the drive and install it into another computer..Will it still work? Or will I just have to do everything on the computer that it is intended for
 
Usually people make separate partitions for each OS, but it's not necessary as long as they're FAT32 partitions. (Win98 can't read NTFS partitions)
Install Win98 first, then install XP and XP will take care of making the proper modifications to the boot sector to allow you to choose the OS at boot.

Moving the drive to another computer may or may not work. Chances are you'll run into a few issues... first, the HAL may not be correct in which case you'll have to use the recovery console to install the correct one. Second, you'll be uninstalling drivers and reinstalling new drivers for the correct hardware... this can get painful if your motherboards are drastically different, for example an Intel chipset in one, and a nVidia chipset in the other. You'll spend more time correcting those issues than if you just install the OS on the hardware it will be used on.
 
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