Duel boot winpx/ win98SE

[Elder]

Ive reofrmated and reinstalled my OS about 5 times over the last few years.. That is im not real experienced at it but ive done it a few times... that said could some one point me in the right direction on how in reformat, partition 2 chuncks of my HD and then install win98se and Xp.. do i need 3rd part soft ware of do i have every thing i need?
thx
elder

[jbell]

just use fidsk and create yoru partitions then installation should be the same as any other windows program, I can 't be 100% but that would be the steps I would take.

[Elder]

so if i create 2 partitions with fdisk install win98se and then reboot will there be some promt to boot from partion a or b ? and then i can install XP on partition B.... ?

[Burning Phoenix]

I just did this yesterday so this is from mostly memory.
I used a startup disk to boot to the c:\ prompt and type fdisk<enter>
type <Y> into box to allow large disk support <enter>
type<3> and delete all the partitions that are there now and follow through those steps until you get bacl to where you can create a new partition
type <1> for a new partition
type <1> for primary dos partition
type <N> for maximun disk space
enter the size of your primary partition (i typed 1000) = 1 Gig <enter> then return to the first menu again
Type <1> for a new partition
type <2> for a extended partition
hit <enter> when some where in the next step i think when it shows the remaining size of your drive
Back to 1st menu again type<2> to set active
Make sure you set the 1st partition active in next step where i think you just type <1> for first partition
Once more go back to main menu and type <4> to display partition info and keep track of the drive letters for those are the 2 you have to format seperately
After the formats are complete i installed Win98 on the first label drive partition being C in my case then afterwards installed WinXP on the second partition being E for me since i had a second drive it skipped a drive letter.
When all said and done at boot up i'm given the choice to startup in WIndows XP or Windows98