Dual boot steps

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Elmo Watson

I have a hard drive setup with NTFS (Win2kPro), with two partitions - one of
which, of course, is my C: drive and the other W:\

What I'd now like to do is install a dual boot sitution - I need Win98 to be
installed to test new software development - - can anyone outline what I
need to do, or recommend a step by step web page for this?

I've heard of it being done - but I've never done it myself and don't want
to screw up my environment

(---totally paranoid)
 
Elmo Watson said:
I have a hard drive setup with NTFS (Win2kPro), with two partitions - one of
which, of course, is my C: drive and the other W:\

What I'd now like to do is install a dual boot sitution - I need Win98 to be
installed to test new software development - - can anyone outline what I
need to do, or recommend a step by step web page for this?

I've heard of it being done - but I've never done it myself and don't want
to screw up my environment

(---totally paranoid)
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Installing Win98 on a disk whose primary partition uses the
NTFS file system is a little tricky. Some respondents might
say it can't be done, but if you follow the instructions below
then it will work. You must, of course, back up your important
files before you do this. And if you're totally paranoid then you
should take a snapshot of your existing installation, using an
imaging program such as TrueImage (Acronis) or DriveImage
(PowerQuest).

1. Boot into Win2000.
2. Copy the hidden files c:\boot.ini, c:\ntldr and c:\ntdetect.com to a
floppy disk.
3. Create a ***primary*** FAT32 partition for Win98. Format it.
4. Make this partition active.
5. Install Win98 in this partition.
6. Boot into a DOS prompt (press F8 during the early boot phase).
7. Copy the files made in Step 2 to c:\.
8. Get a copy of bootpart.exe from here:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
9. Run these commands:
- bootpart winnt boot:c:
This will create the Win2000 boot sector on the FAT32 partition.
- bootpart win95 c:\bootsect.dos "Windows 98"
This will create the Windows 98 boot sector file. It will also create
a Windows 98 entry in c:\boot.ini

That's it!
 
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