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Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98

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From: Chris McIntyre
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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From: "Chris McIntyre" <not@chance.com (ask me)>
Subject: Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98
Date: 1998/08/18
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