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I want to install NT4 on the same hard drive as WIN98, What do I do???

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Well right now I have only a 6.4 gig HD and as I am studying to become an MCSE in the NT4 area, what I want to do is to install NT Workstation 4 OR NT Server 4 on my computer, so that I can switch back and forth between the two for practice in, for the NT stuff. I have never installed NT4 on my PC and I'm wondering, will I need to go and buy a new physical hard drive? I have about 2gigs free on my PC right now, but is there any way I can install the NT4 o/s without Formating my HD and losing all of the Data I have now in my WIn 98?? I really don't want to re-install WIn98, as backing up all of my Data would be too much of a hassel.

Could I just take the free HD space I have now, and create a new partition (a.k.a new Drive D:\, and then format it in NTFS). Or will I have to re-format my HD with FAT 16 and then re-install win98 in FAT 16; so that I can then put the boot filies for NT4 on my FAT 16 partition???

DO I SOUND TOTALY CONFUSED, I know that once I'm an MCSE I should know the answeres to these questions, but untill then..... 🙂

PLEASE HELP ME OUT

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My PC is;
Celeron 300A
128MB ram
6.4 gig HD
Win98 SE with FAT32
SDSL
Sound Blaster Live
RivaTNT Video
Voodoo2 in SLI mode😕
 
Windows NT can read FAT 16 and NTFS.
Windows 98 can read FAT 16 and FAT 32.

Therefore if you want both operating systems to see the partition you will need it to be FAT 16, unless you use Windows 2000 which can read FAT 32.

You will need a separate partition for Windows NT, but I am pretty sure that Windows 2000 can be installed right next to Windows 98 on the same partition.

You can use partition magic to dynamically create partitions and move around data without a reformat. I would back up everything important first though.

In all honesty though I think installing Windows 2000 is a better idea than Windows NT 4 since it "understands" how Windows 98 works and makes the installation smoother. Windows 2000 is essentially Windows NT 5 so you won't miss out anything. In fact you will gain skills with the new stuff as well as the old.
 
BFG has alot of good info, but if you are set on NT4 then you can use FDISK to create a partition for NT.Then you decide if you want NTFS or FAT16, I would choose FAT16 as it's easier to break if you want the whole hard drive back.After you make the partition and install NT4 on that partition, you will have a menu to choose from: Windows or NT.I have done this a few times,it does work.NTFS is hard to format over,but I do have some software to do that 😉 if you need it.You can email me if I can help any more than this.
 
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