Dual boot setup help needed

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I am trying to setup a dual boot system with Win 98 Fat32 on one and
XP NTFS on the second hard drive.I have a 40 Gb I loaded Win 98 on and
my second drive is a 100 gb I have Xp on. How do I set up the jumpers
to have the option of which program I would like to start in. No
matter what I do which ever hard drive is set as the master is the
only program option to start.

ANY advice would ge greatly appreciated

Tammy
 
Greetings --

If WinXP is already installed:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

Otherwise:

The simplest way I've found to dual boot between Win9x and WinXP
would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows:

C: Primary FAT32 Win9x/Legacy Apps
D: Extended NTFS WinXP/Modern Apps

Adjust the partition sizes according to your actual hard drive(s)
size and the amount of space you'd like to allocate to each OS and its
applications.

Create the partitions using Win9x's FDISK so you can enable large
disk support (FAT32). (No need for 3rd party partitioning
utilities/boot managers and their frequent complications.)

Install Win9x first, being sure to select "C:\Windows" (or
D:\Windows, if you prefer) when asked for the default Windows
directory. When you subsequently install WinXP, be sure to specify
"D:\Winnt" (or "D:\Windows," "C:\Winnt" as referred/applicable) when
asked for the default Windows directory, to place it in the other
partition. The WinXP installation routine will automatically set up a
Multi-boot menu for you. The default settings for this menu can be
readily edited from within WinXP. NOTE: If you elect to place Win98
on the "D:" drive, you'll _have_ to leave the "C:" drive as FAT32.

This method can be adapted to using 2 physical hard drives by
placing the boot partition (C:, which still must be FAT32) and either
of the operating systems on the Primary Master hard drive, and the
second operating system on the second hard drive.

It is also possible to have a 3rd partition for shared
applications, but it would be necessary for such a partition to be
formatted in the common file format (FAT32). The applications would
also have to be installed into each OS (to ensure proper system file
placement and registry updates), one at a time, but the bulk of the
program files could be located on this common partition. I do not,
however, actually recommend doing this as, if you were to uninstall
such an application from one OS, you may not be able to gracefully
uninstall it from the second OS, having already deleted crucial
installation data during the first uninstall action.

Just about everything you need to know (URLs may wrap):

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/2/10.ASP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/multiboot.asp


Bruce Chambers

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Basically, Tim, you can't do what you want the way you're doing it.

Install 98 on the C: drive (which it sounds like it already is). Leave the
second drive jumpered as the primary slave, or as a secondary master or
slave, and boot into 98 normally.

Run Setup from the XP CD. Choose Custom installation, and specify that you
will decide where its installed. Point it to your second hard disk. XP
will install, and when you're done you'll have a boot menu, when booting
from the C: drive that will give you a choice between 98 and XP, with XP as
the default.

Note: Since the second hard disk is already NTFS formatted, 98 will not be
able to see the drive, so you'll have to reformat it FAT32, then convert
later.

If this isn't a desireable option, see www.bootitng.com for BootIt Next
Generation. This program is a full featured boot and partition manager,
which will allow you to define boot menus, specifying what drive to boot
from and even what drives are visible to each OS.
 
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