installing win98 on a 160GB HD?

[notanotheracct]

i wanna have 3 OS's (98SE, XP pro, linux) and was wondering if i made a 2gig partion for win98 (NON-SE) if i'd have any issues doing so since it'd still be part of an HD much larger than it was meant for. i'd upgrade to 98SE once i got it.

 

[Ronin]

As long as it's partitioned off, you should have no problems.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You might have issues if it isn't the first partition. On >32 GB drives we've had problems trying to get Win98SE's version of DOS to boot in a second or third active partition (using a boot manager and partition hiding).

 

[notanotheracct]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You might have issues if it isn't the first partition. On >32 GB drives we've had problems trying to get Win98SE's version of DOS to boot in a second or third active partition (using a boot manager and partition hiding).

yea, i'd install the OS's in the order i mentioned them since XP would have booting issues if 98 was installed after it.

by the way, i've seen in other posts people mentioning ways of making an "upgrade only" OS cd being turned into a retail version, am i allowed to ask for such help here? because i have an old compaq only/upgrade only 98SE cd that could save me the trouble of finding a normal version, and i don't know if i'll have any problems using an XP SP1 CD from a dell laptop on another computer tomorrow; i used it before and it installed fine but i always ended up with an "NTLDR is missing" afterwords.

 

[i1o0i]

why u need win 98 for? its old school..

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: i1o0i
why u need win 98 for? its old school..

Games? I've found several I just can't get to run under XP regardless of whether I use compatiblity settings, play with audio acceleration, etc.

 

[notanotheracct]

Originally posted by: i1o0i
why u need win 98 for? its old school..

personally, to use old software. most of the programs for hacking game ROMs only work for win98 or linux.