Win2k compatible partiton?

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Bob H

I am trying to install win2k on HD1 (2nd disk) on a machine that has
win98 on it already on HD0 (first disk). I am using a bootmanager to
hide the win98 partition, so that each OS is totally independant of each
other, but I have a problem which I know is not surprising.

During the setup, win2k tells me that the win98 partition, or more
precisley that the first disk does not contain a windows 2000 compatible
partition. "Oh bugger", said Bungle.

Is there any way I can do what I want, or do I have to make a win2k
compatible partition, and if so where, and how big?

Thanks
 
Bob H said:
I am trying to install win2k on HD1 (2nd disk) on a machine that has
win98 on it already on HD0 (first disk). I am using a bootmanager to
hide the win98 partition, so that each OS is totally independant of each
other, but I have a problem which I know is not surprising.

During the setup, win2k tells me that the win98 partition, or more
precisley that the first disk does not contain a windows 2000 compatible
partition. "Oh bugger", said Bungle.

Is there any way I can do what I want, or do I have to make a win2k
compatible partition, and if so where, and how big?

Thanks
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Win2000 can recognise any partition that Win98 can. The
partition you refer to is either your boot manager partition,
or it is the damaged FAT/FAT32 partition for Win98. What
boot manager do you use?
 
Pegasus said:
Win2000 can recognise any partition that Win98 can. The
partition you refer to is either your boot manager partition,
or it is the damaged FAT/FAT32 partition for Win98. What
boot manager do you use?
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Ok, the bootmanager I am using is called Powerboot. I use it succesfully
on another machine to boot beween 3 OS's. Powerboot does not need/use
any partition for itself as it resides at the very beginning of disk1.
So what about this compaible partition then that win2k needs to write
'some files' to on disk 1?

thanks
 
Bob H said:
Ok, the bootmanager I am using is called Powerboot. I use it succesfully
on another machine to boot beween 3 OS's. Powerboot does not need/use
any partition for itself as it resides at the very beginning of disk1.
So what about this compaible partition then that win2k needs to write
'some files' to on disk 1?

thanks
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"The very beginning of disk 1" sounds a little suspicious. It could be
the Master Boot Record (MBR), which has very little room for code,
it could be the partition's boot sector, which does not have much more
room, or it could be a dedicated partition. I suggest you run fdisk.exe
and determine what partitions you really have. You could also run
ptedit.exe: It will tell you the exact type of each and every partition
on your disk(s). You can download it from here:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/
 
Pegasus said:
"The very beginning of disk 1" sounds a little suspicious. It could be
the Master Boot Record (MBR), which has very little room for code,
it could be the partition's boot sector, which does not have much more
room, or it could be a dedicated partition. I suggest you run fdisk.exe
and determine what partitions you really have. You could also run
ptedit.exe: It will tell you the exact type of each and every partition
on your disk(s). You can download it from here:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/
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What I did was hide all other primary/active partitions on disk1 when I
started the win2k setup, but now I have unhidden them so that win2k can
write its files on disk1

Never mind, if that is what has got to happen then so be it.

Thanks anyway
 
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