Dual Booting Win98 and XP is is possible?

[justme_jim@nospam.com]

Is it possible to boot to both Win98 and XP? I also want Dos. I
assume my win98 would be the dos boot, since right now I boot to dos
and have to type WIN to start windows.

What I want is this same setup for 98 and dos, OR boot to XP.
How can I do this? Do I put both OSs on C:, or should I put one of
them on D: (another partition)?

 

[pjp]

Easiest is to install 98 on your "C": drive and after that's up and going
install XP on a second partition or hard disk (usually "D"). Pay attention
to XP's install screens during install. You end up with a boot menu where
you select which OS to start, then if you have 98's startup menu also being
displayed you can select Windows or DOS after selecting "Windows 98"..

Least works fine on my older P733 with two hard disks in it.

Note - if you want the XP hard disk to be usable under DOS and 98 then
insure it's formatted FAT32 and not NTFS as 98/DOS doesn't understand NTFS
formatted disks.

<justme_jim@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to boot to both Win98 and XP? I also want Dos. I
> assume my win98 would be the dos boot, since right now I boot to dos
> and have to type WIN to start windows.
>
> What I want is this same setup for 98 and dos, OR boot to XP.
> How can I do this? Do I put both OSs on C:, or should I put one of
> them on D: (another partition)?
>

 

[Robert Baer]

justme_jim@nospam.com wrote:

> Is it possible to boot to both Win98 and XP? I also want Dos. I
> assume my win98 would be the dos boot, since right now I boot to dos
> and have to type WIN to start windows.
>
> What I want is this same setup for 98 and dos, OR boot to XP.
> How can I do this? Do I put both OSs on C:, or should I put one of
> them on D: (another partition)?
>
I have a similar multiple OS HD.
Must be made in one of the following ways:
1a) Make DOS partition(s) but leave 2 for Win88SE and XP install DOS
and any other related programs / data.
1b) Use FDISK to create partition for Win98SE, format it and set that as
active install Win98SE.

2a) Use FDISK to create partition for Win98SE, format it and set that as
active install Win98SE.
2b) make other partition(s) for DOS but leave one for XP.
2c) set DOS partition as active, install DOS and anything else related
reset Win98SE partition as active when done.

Now the possibly triksy part.
Win2K will *ask* where you want to put it, and you can then select
the unformatted space as a new partition and install there.
Net result is that when you boot, you will see a screen to choose the
OS (Win98SE or Win2K).

Now, if XP is *nice* (which is seriously doubtful), it will allow the
same flexibility.

Have fun.