Windows 98 on current 2000 dual boot

[LiLRiceBoi]

I'm installing 98 on a win2k comp for a friend. He doenst want me to format cuz he has everything the way he wants it. I used PM to hide the NTFS partition and installed 98 on "H". It's on the third partition on the primary master drive.

How do I dualboot this now?

If I set which ever partition to active, it boots. But when I set the NTFS to active and try to boot 98 it just restarts.

I have this after the windows 2000 line in boot.ini

H:\="Microsoft Windows 98"

I've also tried it w/ H:\WINDOWS="....

How do I fix this without using a third party loader?

 

[bacillus]

win98 writes some files to C even though it's not installed on that partition.
is C: fat32 or NTFS? dos can't read a NTFS partition!

 

[LiLRiceBoi]

C is NTFS.

Could I somehow put NTLDR and all of 2000's boot files on the 98 partition and have it boot from there?

 

[13black]

Maybe it's not really H:\ , at least not yet. If you have cd-rom drives between c:\ and H:\ it could be messing you up. I think the cd-rom drives only factor in after you boot into windows. If you have two drives try using f:\ for windows 98.

 

[EeyoreX]

The hard drive that 98 is installed on is not an issue. The issue is almost certainly what was mentioned above. Windows 9x systems install certain files on the C:\ drive, regardless of what drive the OS itself is installed on. DOS/Windows 9x can not read files from a NTFS system, so if C:\ is NTFS, Windows 9x will not boot. Doesn't PM come with Boot Magic or whatever it's called? A 3rd party (as opposed to the Windows 2000 boot manager) boot manager that you can try? If so, I would try that and see if it works. Or, you will need to convert the NTFS partition to FAT32 and go from there. You can find several articles at the MS Knowledge Base, and on Google for how to set up Windows 98 to dual boot with a Windows 2000 system.

\Dan