re: Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos!
Monday, February 11, 2002 at 12:41 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael
(2800 messages posted)
You need both sets of boot files on the same drive, so what you could do is continue
using the Windows 2000 drive as the C: drive, and install Windows on the new drive
as a D: drive.
To do this, you need to have the Windows 2000 drive as the Master on the IDE connector,
and the new one as slave (or on the secondary IDE connector if you're not using it
for a CD drive).
When you install Windows 98 it will overwrite the 2000 boot files, but you can replace
them with a Windows 2000 repair disk. You should then have a dual-booting system.
Check out my website at: www.menary.co.uk/pchelp
for some background on bootdisks, partitioning, formatting and file systems.
On Monday, February 11, 2002 at 11:01 am, Richard wrote:
>I currently have a 20GB hard drive with windows2000 installed on it, in FAT32 format.
>I recently purchassed an additional 2.5GB hard drive, with the intention of installing
>windows98 on it.
>
>(This was so i could dual boot, and for various reasons, formatting the 20GB drive
>and starting fresh is simply not an option.)
>
>It currently recognises both drives, and updates the ESCD successfully, and then
>it has problems. If i insert a win98 boot up disk for it (as it asks,) it says that
>"NTLDR is missing".
>
>I figured that if i removed the 20GB drive, and tried to format/install on the 2.5GB
>drive first, then put the 20GB drive back in, it might work, but sadly it did'nt
>work.
>
>Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
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