With a system already formatted in NTFS, and a hard drive partitioned into 3 drives (c,d,e), and XP Home already on it, is it possible to set it up to dual-boot into Win98se with fat 32, or do we have to start from scratch and reset everything/all partitions to fat 32 and begin loading XP from scratch?
(I'm still having problems with XP deciding that some directories are write-protected or read-only, and in spite of me resetting their properties to share & be available for editing, they instantly reset themselves and prohibit saving or creating of new files. Microsoft has offered no workable solution. I figured I'd put the offending programs on a Win98se boot if possible, weithout scrapping the current installation, hopefully. )
Thanks in advance!
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Since you are not fully familiar with dual booting in FAT 32 and NTFS. Let me recommend that you get a dual boot manager. This will help you set up your dual boot system until you get more familiar with this. There are several great managers around
I've used Hyper OS 2002 ver 6 to set up machines to triple boot... but this is expensive
You may need to use FAT 16 Microsoft dual-booting NT and DOS requires the bootable partition (C:) be formatted as FAT16. The option to boot into DOS is automatically added if the NT (XP) installation program finds a DOS boot sector in place on C:. If C: is formatted as NTFS, it won't find one. DOS cannot be installed on an NTFS partition.
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Thanks Curtis. So with a dual boot manager, the existing NTFS system can stay as it is? I want to install w98se onto the XPhome laptop.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
if the boot manager will allow you to format the new partition to FAT32 you will be fine.. I dotn know the latest in boot managers because i dotn do much work like that any more..
