OS Question

[Fraki]

I'm asking on behalf of a friend. Here is his problem.

I have Windows XP and I want to either completley delete it and put Win98 on, or have both OS's running at the same time and I'm having trouble with both.

I partioned my hardrive but i can't figure out how to install 98.

[Jade Dragon]

You might want to put on: what computer you're intalling to (details), what versions of windows (OEM or Full Win98 / XP home or pro) an

Go into bios and change the boot drive to your partitioned drive. this will force the computer to ignore you C:drive boot files.

have your win98 3.5 boot disk ready......

Make sure that the win98 disk install is poiting to the partitioned drive, most win98 b versions have this choice .

If its an OEM factory win 98 for your computer then you may have to have it on the C:drive for all components to work properly.

in which case reverse.... install win98 on C: and WinXP on partition.

when ever you want to switch OS back out to dos and go to wich ever drive and type "win"

Assuming you know how to get to DOS (not dos prompt) from XP.

Also you can then change your bios to point to whichever dirve your preferred windows in on.


I take it that you have all these programs that don't run on winXP?.....so much for backwards compatability. I have two computers which I networked together. One win98 and one XP.

[Jade Dragon]

Oh ya, If this doesn't work or royally messes with your computer,,,,,,,I'm absolutely not responsible.

no, uhuh, not one bit......nope

;)

[WeazelOne]

heres how i did it...

I installed windows 98 completely, drivers and all

Then put in the windows XP CD and chose the new installation option then chose custom and installed it to a different directory (winxp)

By default XP has a boot manager and you will see a list of operating systems when you boot. just choose your OS then your good to go.

NOTE: You must use the Fat32 files system (XP has the option for NTFS if you upgraded to NTFS when installing XP then you'll have to run fdisk and recreate the partition[s] to do this you'll need to boot to a win98 or Me boot flooy and run fdisk from the command prompt)

This worked for me. I hope it works for you too.

Let us know how it turns out.

[paulselhi]

i know i keep going on about it but it's been going for years is a steady product, and you don't have to uninstall anything

It's magic (http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/)