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Installing Win98SE/ME and Win2000

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mystiko

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If I wanted to install a dual boot for the above (on a completely new/unformated HDD) what's the recommended procedure, and what file-systems should I use?

Thanks in advance!
 
Procedurally, to make life easy you'll want to partition the drive (if single drive), install and configure win98 on the first partition, then install win2k on the second partition....

As far as file systems, it depends on whether you want/need win98 to access the win2k partition. If yes, FAT32 for both; if not, FAT32 for win98, NTFS for win2k.
 
How about splitting the drive into three partitions, one formatted as NTFS for the Win2000 OS, one in FAT32 for the Win98 OS, and then a shared FAT32 area for datafiles etc?

a) Would this work ok, b) should I create and format all the partitions prior to installing anything, and c) is there a preference as to which filesystem/OS I should put on the primary partition on the drive? (I do have partition magic 5 that I can use if necessary).
 
A) Yes, I recommend the course of action that you have outlined above.
B) Yes, that is also the preferred method.
C) I prefer Win98 on the C: partition.
 
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