Dual Boot

[MedRxman]

I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE and
Win Pro

The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed

The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F

D drive has windows XP Pro

I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and eirhter
clone
the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon
partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D drive
and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it for
storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard drive.

What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the
suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?

Thanks in advance

 

[Ingeborg]

MedRxman wrote:

> I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE
> and Win Pro
>
> The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed
>
> The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F
>
> D drive has windows XP Pro
>
> I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and
> eirhter clone
> the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon
> partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D
> drive and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use
> it for storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard
> drive.
>
> What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the
> suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?
>

In your boot.ini there's a line
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1),
which should be changed to
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)

However, I don't know which pitfalls there could be, and I don't know if it
makes a difference if you move XP from a primary partition to a logical
one. Maybe you'd better ask this in an XP group.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

As you describe it, you're permanently removing WinXP from your system. The
best thing for you to do is ask in a WinXP group about how to get rid of
boot.ini altogether and return to a straight Win98 boot. I *believe* all you
need to do is run SYS C: from a Windows Startup floppy, but you should check
with XP experts..

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"MedRxman" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE and
>Win Pro
>
> The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed
>
> The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F
>
> D drive has windows XP Pro
>
> I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and eirhter
> clone
> the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon
> partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D
> drive and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it
> for storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard drive.
>
> What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the
> suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>

 

[MedRxman]

Hi Gary,
I do not want to remove XP from from my system.I still want to dual boot but
want Win98SE and Win XP Pro on the same hard drive.

I will post to the XP group. Thanks


"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
news:%23ynrwYWyHHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> As you describe it, you're permanently removing WinXP from your system.
> The best thing for you to do is ask in a WinXP group about how to get rid
> of boot.ini altogether and return to a straight Win98 boot. I *believe*
> all you need to do is run SYS C: from a Windows Startup floppy, but you
> should check with XP experts..
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS-MVP Shell/User
> www.grystmill.com
>
> "MedRxman" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Oq5aZCNyHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE and
>>Win Pro
>>
>> The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed
>>
>> The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F
>>
>> D drive has windows XP Pro
>>
>> I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and
>> eirhter clone
>> the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon
>> partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D
>> drive and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it
>> for storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard drive.
>>
>> What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the
>> suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>
>

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Sorry, read it wrong. Here's what I would do.

Get BootIt NG from www.booting.com. Run the download to create a bootable
floppy installation disk. Boot to that disk, but Cancel at the installation
prompt. Then use Partition Work to resize your Win98 partition on the first
drive (HD0), making it smaller, leaving enough new space to house your WinXP
installation (has to be at least as large as the XP partition.) Then switch
to HD1 and Copy the XP partition, then back to HD0 to Paste it into the
empty space.

DO NOT delete the old XP partition yet.

Now, go to the Windows XP newsgroup and ask how to properly edit boot.ini
and whatever else you need to do to have the new partition properly
recognized as a bootable XP OS partition. You should still be able to boot
to the old XP partition, since it will still be in the same place. Once you
get it to boot to the new XP partition, then you can go back and delete the
old XP partition. I would then use BootIt NG to turn the second drive, HD1,
into a single Extended Partition with however many logical volumes you want.

Actually, you should go to the XP group first, and make sure you've got the
instructions right. Tell them about my BootIt NG recommendations so you'll
be on the same page.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com


"MedRxman" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:exOmwsXyHHA.5276@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Gary,
> I do not want to remove XP from from my system.I still want to dual boot
> but want Win98SE and Win XP Pro on the same hard drive.
>
> I will post to the XP group. Thanks
>
>
> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
> news:%23ynrwYWyHHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> As you describe it, you're permanently removing WinXP from your system.
>> The best thing for you to do is ask in a WinXP group about how to get rid
>> of boot.ini altogether and return to a straight Win98 boot. I *believe*
>> all you need to do is run SYS C: from a Windows Startup floppy, but you
>> should check with XP experts..
>>
>> --
>> Gary S. Terhune
>> MS-MVP Shell/User
>> www.grystmill.com
>>
>> "MedRxman" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:Oq5aZCNyHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE
>>>and Win Pro
>>>
>>> The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed
>>>
>>> The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F
>>>
>>> D drive has windows XP Pro
>>>
>>> I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and
>>> eirhter clone
>>> the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon
>>> partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D
>>> drive and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it
>>> for storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the
>>> suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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