Dual Boot Question???

[Paul.K]

Can anyone tell me how to set up my system for a dual boot. I would like to have both 98SE and WinXP pro setup on my system.


Thanks for the help in advance!!!


Paul....

[Violator]

Create two partitions on your HDD

Install Win98 to c:

Run XP setup in Win98 and install to d:

sorted :D

[Paul.K]

Sorry to sound like a complete fool, but how do you partition your harddrive.


Thanks P.

[Violator]

Have you ever used FDisk??

[Softwebdev]

Originally posted by Paul.K
Sorry to sound like a complete fool, but how do you partition your harddrive.


Thanks P.

if you find partition is difficult, don't worry about it...........can you buy another hard drive...............and put int your computer..........you have 2 hard drives in your computer if you do that........

just install 98 in 1 drive and winxp pro in another drive.

problem solved..........

or you can buy partition magic 6.0 and try to use it to partition if you are not familiar with FDISK.......but backup your data before using this software first..............

[WyrmMaster]

You dont need to partition. I have win98se and win2k running off the same partition and it works great.

[Softwebdev]

Originally posted by WyrmMaster
You dont need to partition. I have win98se and win2k running off the same partition and it works great.

you mean in the same drive C ? how do you do that ?

[MrOOBiLL]

Originally posted by WyrmMaster
You dont need to partition. I have win98se and win2k running off the same partition and it works great.
How is that done? :confused:

[Yodums]

It's just done I've done that before it'll give you some message like "It's not recommend you have 2 operating systems on the same drive" skip that and go on...

Read some guides on Fdisk or other stuff really easy stuff to learn.

[Softwebdev]

Originally posted by Yodums
It's just done I've done that before it'll give you some message like "It's not recommend you have 2 operating systems on the same drive" skip that and go on...

Read some guides on Fdisk or other stuff really easy stuff to learn.


it's wierd to have 2 os in the same drive....it's interesting

[Yodums]

But I do believe it can cause some problems, just to be on the safe side I like to have it on 2 Partitions.

[Softwebdev]

Originally posted by Yodums
But I do believe it can cause some problems, just to be on the safe side I like to have it on 2 Partitions.

can't agree more on this one

[trey_w]

make sure you install 98se before you install XP

basically, without getting into detail, if 98 is installed after XP, then it erases files, adn therefor you get corrupted file messages

and by the way, no fdisk in XP,

must use disk management, much easier to use too

and put the operating systems on two seperate partitions, you will have lots of headaches if not

good luck

[bdf24]

The down fall of partitioning a drive atleast in my experiences is it does slow down disk access time. Everytime you access the HD, windows has to read it as 2 drives before it can complete the task. My benchmarks were much slower when I used to partition my drives. I would recomend if you have a little extra cash to buy another HD. You will get better performance.

[trey_w]

i definately agree with you, two hard drives would be better

but, if hes using 1 HDD, then he could have lots of problems if he loads both OS under the same partition

then again he might not

if he does partition 1 HDD, he can mess with the swap file and pick up performance

the ideal performance would be to have 1 operating system per HDD and everything else on another

i have no probs with speed

i run windows XP with 2 ultra160 SCSI Seagate Barracudas

15000 rpm Raided 0(striping) for performance

man its fast

good luck

[Softwebdev]

always have 2 hard drives...1 for document and music and another for OS....never go down