NEED HELP WITH DUAL BOOT win98 and win2k

[Watchdog22]

hello all,
ok, so here's the situation. I'm trying to fix up my dad's computer so that he can "try" win2000 out and the plan is to dual boot. Win98 was already installed, and I landed up adding a completely seperate hard drive with win2k on it. Here's how the computer is setup.
1. The primary hard drive, which has win98 installed on it, is connected through a pci ATA 100 card.
2. The secondary hard drive, which I just put win2000 on, is connected through the regular IDE slots on the mobo.
3. The problem I'm having is that when I use the secondary hard drive (the one with win2k on it), an option for booting to the other hard drive(win98) is not there.
4. Here is a copy of the boot.ini file:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

5. I thought I could fix the problem by simply adding the line c:\="Windows 98"
but that didn't seem to do the trick.

one more thing, reformatting the 98 drive is not an option cause my dad has lots of old programs that he does not have the install disks for.

So yea, if any of you out there wouldn't mind taking a couple moments to help me out, that'd be great. Thanks.

 

[Watchdog22]

bump...please help?

 

[obenton]

Two issues. One, the boot drive, as determined by motherboard BIOS, must contain the w2k boot files, including the boot menu. Two, you can't change the w2k drive to a drive letter different from what it was when w2k was installed on it - moving a w2k install into another computer can lead to this and other problems.

 

[Watchdog22]

yea, i have the boot drive as setup in the bios point towards the one with win2k on it. But in my previous experiences with dual booting, win2k normally automatically recognized my win98 partition, and i didn't need to modify the boot file at all. Any ideas????

 

[obenton]

The w2k boot files aren't necessarily on the disk on which you installed w2k. Where they're put depends on what disk is the system drive when w2k is installed. The boot files for w2k are ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini - and the files that boot win98 are io.sys, msdos.sys, and bootsect.dos (a copy of the DOS/win9x boot sector). See where they are.

 

[Watchdog22]

yea, i've been able to find see and modify the boot.ini file, I just do'nt know how to modify it so that it points to the 98 boot information. Would you happen to know what line of code I should add to the boot.ini file so that it will go to the win98 boot info?? I've tried
d:\="win98" but all that results in is the computer getting restarted, and coming back to the win2k boot loader screen.

 

[Watchdog22]

bump...please help!!!

 

[obenton]

Lots of possibilities. Better describe your setup in detail, and maybe someone can help - what your drives' IDE configuration is - both before and after you changed it - what computer you installed w2k on and what w2k's drive letter was - where you're finding the w2k and win98 boot files mentioned in my previous post, and whether any are missing - and the entire contents of your boot.ini file.

 

[lilnnjaboy]

you realize that since the win98 drive is on a different controller, you need to install the controller drivers on the win2k harddrive, and list the controller in the boot

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect


i think it was like multi (1) or controller(1) cuz technically you are running it on a SCSI controller.

Easiest way to set this up is like this. Connect the blank harddrive and go into windows 98

insert win2k disk and it'll as you what type of install of 2000 you would like.

Select fresh install...and pick the harddrive that is blank. and it should automatically create the boot.ini correctly for you.