Installing 98 With NT Already Installed

[Xe0n]

My friend is getting a new compaq armada e500 (15", 850, 256 ram ect, needs it for programming stuff) and wants to run 98 on it for some personal stuff. The company doesnt care, but they say that you must do it yourself and dont come complaing to them when it doesnt work. I figured id ghost the hard drive incase i screw it up. Is there any way to install 98 after nt is installed. I have always installed the 9x system first and then installed the nt based system. Is there any way to bypass this? I own partition magic, but have never used bootmagic that comes iwth it. Will this solve my problem?

 

[Motorheader]

Done it both ways - with and without P'magic. Go with the PartitionMagic though - easy and straightforward. Remember that almost all Compaq's come with that diagnostic (bios) partition - you don't want to mess with that. Powerquest really knows there products though - that would be the best way to go.

 

[SUOrangeman]

If you do not have an NT emergency repair disk, make one by running 'rdisk' (from with NT, duh).

Boot the system with the Win9x floppy/CD. When you go to install, use 'setup /ntldr' If Win9x behaves, it will automagically add itself to NT's boot menu. If not, you'll need to boot with the NT CD (after Win9x install) and repair the NT install. It will ask for the emergency floppy at that time.

-SUO