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WeaponX
11-14-01, 09:21 PM
I want to make my computer be able to boot up in either Win2K or Win98. I'm not sure how to make the partitions on my hard drive though. I have a 40 GB hard drive, and I wanted to partition it into a 35 GB and a 5 GB hard drive. How do I do this without messing my hard drive completely? I have a stand alone copy of Win98 and an upgrade of Win2K. Someone please tell me how I can do this!:confused:

Violator
11-15-01, 04:47 AM
Originally posted by WeaponX
I want to make my computer be able to boot up in either Win2K or Win98. I'm not sure how to make the partitions on my hard drive though. I have a 40 GB hard drive, and I wanted to partition it into a 35 GB and a 5 GB hard drive. How do I do this without messing my hard drive completely? I have a stand alone copy of Win98 and an upgrade of Win2K. Someone please tell me how I can do this!:confused:

Use Fdisk to create a Primary DOS partition, specify a 5Gb size.

Create an Extended DOS Partition of 35Gb, assign a logical drive to that Partition.

Make Primary DOS active.

Reboot with boot-disk.

Format c:

Run 98 Setup

Once 98 is setup run 2000 setup in 98, specify second partition to install 2000 to. 2000 will take care of dual-boot setup and menu.

If you're not familiar with Fdisk check this out :

http://members.aol.com/don5408/drivespace/fdisk.html

Or ask here :D

Yodums
11-15-01, 06:47 AM
Yes what he said and remember always install Win 98 first before 2K