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re: NFTS or FAT32 with Win98 as OS n 2nd drive??
Monday, October 11, 2004 at 11:30 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jaf
(3264 messages posted)
Switching boot drives in your bios should work (if your bios and system architecture
allows). As was mentioned though, 98 won't function on NTFS.
How much stored data are you talking about? If you have enough room on your XP drive,
temporarily move the contents of your second drive there, while you fat32 format
and install 98, then move the data back. There are many other options for dual booting
(ghost drive 1, partition, install 98, restore XP, edit boot.ini, etc) both hardware
(like NickLock) and software, and although it is possible to convert NTFS to fat32
with third party software, the success rate is low. Google for details, and whatever
you do, start with a recovery plan other than system restore ;)
On Monday, October 11, 2004 at 7:48 am, remluf wrote:
>I have a PC with two hard drives. One running XP & the other just for storage. I
>have thought about putting Windows 98 on the second drive & using it for the OS
(after
>using F8 as at boot up & telling bios to boot into that drive) as one or two of
my
>apps don't work on XP. Both hard drives are NFTS. Will 98 work on an NFTC hard drive
>or will I need to convert it to FAT 32?
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