HELP WITH DUAL BOOT

[ancker 0]

I am set up to dual boot 98se and 2000

 

i need to alter the boot file so my computer looks for 98 in the right place

 

(it looks for it in d: but it is actually in e

 

where is this file at?

 

Please help

[Jerry - 0]

Win98 should be on the C drive. I'm not sure if it works otherwise.

Open your boot.ini file on the C: drive and look for something like: x:\="Microsoft Windoze 98, under [Operating Systems] Change the x to whatever drive letter win98 is on.

[ancker 0]

my boot.ini file says nothing about windows 98

 

but when i boot my computer it gives me 98 and 2000 as a choice.

 

Please look into it deeper

 

Ancker

[bigb 0]

Dood! ,, Dual booting with 98 and NT or 2000 any ver ,, WILL NOT ,, work at all unless you have 98 on your c: drive ,, trust me on this i am a frickin multiboot haxor after having done this soooo mannyy times, ,time after time,,, but anyway ,, just install 98 on c: then runthe 2000 setup from 98 or emu-dos prompt then all is well ,, if you don't want to do this ,,have fun hehehe

but anyways hope this helps you on your quest

of multibooting expertise. lates dood

[Grimjak 0]

The only alternative I can think of is to have multiple primary partitions. Basically when you boot you set one partition to be active and hide the other one, that way Win2K and Win98 don't know of each others existence. Partition magic 4 or a similar program would probably let you hack this together from your current setup without reinstalling.

[bigb 0]

Good Point Dood!,,, But.....

A. Partition Magic SUCKS!

B. It can cause hassle sometimes

C. IT Sucks!

 

i would not reccomend using that product at all ,,to me its just a cheesy way out...

 

Set it up right ,,, you'll feel better.

[ancker 0]

HOW DO I SET IT UP RIGHT?

 

(without loosing data)

here is my setup

 

13.5GB drive:

part1: 101mb (boot sector)

part2: ~12GB (fat32 win98)

20.5GB drive

part1: 100% (fat32 win2000)

 

please help

 

Ancker

[DosFreak 2]

Follow Jerry's advice. Look on your C:\ Partition for BOOT.INI. Take off the Hidden, read-only, system attributes. Then edit boot.ini and add the lines like Jerry say's.

This is how I set my system up.

 

Boot with dos disk.

Install Millenium Beta 2

Select E:\ Partition for Beta 2 Install.

Boot into Millenium.

Insert W2K disk, Select C:\ partition for NT.

When all the installs are done I have.

C:-W2K

D:-Second Hard Drive

E:-MIL Beta 2

 

 

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C:\Dos

C:\Dos\Run

\Run\Dos\Run

[KingGremlin 0]

You don't want to edit the boot.ini file, that is not the problem. What you want to edit is msdos.sys, which is in the root directory of the C drive. Once you open it, it will be quite obvious what you have to edit.