re: Dual boot win2k/98 cant install 98, appears to have no dos!
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:30 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gil Mauldin
(1 messages posted)
Here is what you do.
Make your drive for 98 the primary master and the drive for w2k the Primary slave
or the secondary master. Install 98 first and then install w2k and it works flawlessly.
I have it this way on my machine and it runs great.
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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