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Article #31Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98
From: Chris McIntyre
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00
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Why can't you just install windows 98 on a Fat32 partition, and then install WinNT with the boot disks on another one as NTFS? you could install WinNT on c: and Win98 on d:. This is not meant to offend anyone, I just want to know because I want to dual boot 98 an NT. David Erickson wrote in message <6qphqn$pj7$1@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net>... >That is something i didn't think of doing. Make a small 5mb FAT16 partition >for the boot loader and then you can make win98 FAT32, and NT NTFS. But >then you absolutely can't exchange files even one way hehe. > >Dave Erickson > >Andreas Hofmann wrote in message <35C8A2C1.D6D7DFBF@usa.net>... >>Mike Kooiker wrote: >> >>> I have >>> tried many things. One was to put a parititon magic boot partition in the >>> IDE and use that to select WIN 98 and NT. It would select 98 fine but >when i >>> selected NT I just got a blinking cursor. I have also tried system >>> commmander (on the IDE) which will work one cycle through then when I >>> reboot, I get the "NONE FOUND [ACTIVE PARTITION] ON HDD" error again. >> >>Have you selected the primary partition of NT into the boot manager? If you >>select the NTFS partition this is not the place where the boot files are >>located. It should work if you select the (may be small) FAT boot partition >into >>the boot managers menu. >> >>Andreas >> >> > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb9cd,dd4529622038c73f X-Google-Attributes: gidfb9cd,public X-Google-Thread: 106691,dd4529622038c73f X-Google-Attributes: gid106691,public X-Google-Thread: f48de,dd4529622038c73f X-Google-Attributes: gidf48de,public X-Google-Thread: 10a42e,dd4529622038c73f X-Google-Attributes: gid10a42e,public X-Google-Thread: fa335,dd4529622038c73f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa335,public X-Google-Thread: 115e93,dd4529622038c73f X-Google-Attributes: gid115e93,public X-Google-Thread: 105307,dd4529622038c73f X-Google-Attributes: gid105307,public From: "Chris McIntyre" <not@chance.com (ask me)> Subject: Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98 Date: 1998/08/18 Message-ID: <6rd5jj$tjp$1@news.goodnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 382469780 References: <fRyw1.16435$7k7.13536708@news.rdc1.sdca.home.com> <35C8A2C1.D6D7DFBF@usa.net> <6qphqn$pj7$1@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: GoodNet Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.compatibility,cz.comp.windows.nt,tw.bbs.comp.mswindows.nt