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Problem with NT 4.0/ Win98 dual boot

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cirrus1

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I want to dual boot between Win 98 and Win NT 4.0 using the boot loader in NT (or maybe some 3rd party program)

But when I use NT's boot loader I can't boot Win98.

When I choose Microsoft Windows (which NT placed in the boot meny during installation) I just see the Win98 splash screen, but then it stops and complains about not finding the files (config.sys, win.com etc) which is on the D: drive (partition #2). When i try to access the drive when typing "d:" it just isn't there.

I have have heard something about that NT's bootloader hides other partitions that the active...Is that it?

I have my partions set up as follows:

#1: fat16 (first installed the boot files from win98 on them, then NT put it's bootloader there too)
#2 fat32 partition with windows directory and so on
#3 NTFS for windows NT 4.0

The reason for using this setup is to avoid fat16.

Other setups/solutions are very appreciated 🙂

PS: This setup is the one listed on tweak3dnet

Thanks
 
Hmm, are you sure all of your partitions are still there? See if you can just boot to DOS (maybe with Win98 CD or something) and run 'fdisk'. If that's not possible, run the Disk Administrator from within WinNT. Verify that your partitions are as you expect them to be.

It *looks* like you did everything right, but something quirly may have happened.

-SUO
 
All of my disk partitions are still there as I have both checked with NT's disk manager and Partition Magic 4.0.

I'm going to try out the solutions that idgaf13 gave me the link to (thanks idgaf13 🙂

I think i'm installling it all on one 2gb fat 16 partition. I just needs two of them since I have 4gb total on my hd (it's not the system below that i'm installing on. There will be a lot of slack but I just have to cope with it 🙁

Thanks for all of your help 🙂
 
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