How to setup a dual boot?

[Beeker50 0]

I am currently running Win98SE on an all SCSI system. My system is as follows:

AsusK7V, 700Athlon, Adaptec29160,2-Seagate Cheatah 18XL's,Plextor12/4/32 CD-RW,Plextor 40X UltraPlexWide,Pioneer 16X DVD(IDE),Zip250

AsusV6600Deluxe,Hollywood+,SBLivePlat,3Com56k

Win TV-D,

My current drive partitions are as follows;

SCSI ID 0 :Drive C 17.5 Gigs,Windows98SE and all program files, SCSI ID 1: Drive D 12.5gigs & Drive E: 5gigs. Drive D just has a few folders with games-can get rid of. Drive E is currently empty.

I want to dual boot WIN98SE & WIN2K, do I use 1 drive for Win 98SE and 1 drive for Win2k or do I repartition Drive C and put both OS's on the same drive? Which is easier and which way will give me the choice of what OS's to boot into at startup?

After reading all of the posts on this board, I think that I am in the right place for some very good advice and a good education at the same time. Thanks in Advance.

I just got the new system up and running so reformating and re partitioning would be no big deal, I have all of my settings already saved on Cd & Zip to load back into the system when necessary. I also have my Drive Imaged saved incase I make a mess of things the first time through.

 

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AsusK7V,700AMD,Adapt29160

2- Cheatah 18XL,256mb MicronPC133,Asus V6600Deluxe, Plex 12/4/32,Plex 40X UltraPlexWide,Pioneer16X DVD,Zip250,Holly+,SB Live Plat,Win TV-D,FullTower w/9 fans & 2HD coolers.

[Four and Twenty 0]

I have a dual boot situation where win2k and windows Millennium beta 3 are installed on my single ide hd. I have my 12.6 gighd partitioned as follows: 11.7 gigs dirve c: with win2k installed, dirve d: 978 megs with win me installed. Now to acomplish this i first partitioned my hd shooting for a gig for windows 98se (which was the first os that i had installed on logical drive d: ) fdisk is kinda wierd so instead of a gig i came out with 978 megs which is fine cause it is close enough. Anyway you need not partition anything because you have multiple hard disks. So with my drive split in two i first installed win98se on drive d: (note win98 must be installed first!!!) so you are all set because you allready have win98 installed so you are halfway there. I then installed win2k on logical drive c: and blamo done dual boot setup finished. When i got windows Millennium i simply installed it over win98se and thats it. one final note when installing win2k on whichever drive you decide to put it on make sure that the you leave the drives fat32 and DO NOT CHANGE TO NTFS or you will not be able to boot win 98. WIN98 simply doesn't know how to read ntfs so if you change any of your drives to ntfs, well you get the idea! Good luck Hope this helps!

 

[This message has been edited by Four and Twenty (edited 27 June 2000).]