Partition Magic 7 and dual booting 98/XP

[rpc64]

I have 2 partitions on my hard drive, one with Win98SE and one with WinXP. What I want to know is how do I set my partitions so that I can see and use both of them from either OS? Partition Magic says that a partition with an OS on it must be primary, and it also says that you can't have 2 visible primary partitions at the same time. But I need to be able to access both partitions from either OS. Would it work if I made the XP partition logical and then made the extended partition primay? (partition magic help says that extended partitions are an exception to the 2 visible primary rule)

 

[DaveSimmons]

I usually create a logical partition D: drive and share files by putting them there -- why do you need to have 98 & XP look at each other's system files? If that's what you really want you might as well install both to a single shared C: drive right?

 

[stevewm]

Desptie what Partition Magic says 2k/XP do support multiple visible Primary partitions I'm doing it right now (C: Primary for OS, D: Primary for data,docs,etc....) Its only 9x based OSes that don't. XP will boot from a logical partition. But when you change this your boot.ini file will not be updated and you'll get NTLDR missing when you try to boot.

I'd go with DaveSimmons suggestion. Make another partition and put the files you want to share between OSes there.

 

[rpc64]

Thanks guys I got it figured out. I made my WinXP partition logical and everything is working fine.