CASTLECASCADE

I guess only an ingenious idea could help me get what I want. I thought of (and tried out) numerous methods which I could venture up in my head...and NONE helped.

Hope one of you can help me out.

This is what I want:

I want to dualboot my P4 (has 2 hard disks, 2nd of which I use ONLY for saving video/audio files) with 98 and XP. So both O/S should go in to the 1st hard disk.

Now this is how I want the partitions drive letters to be. I want the 98 to be finally in PARTITION "X". I want the XP to be in PARTITION "C". Other than these, I would want to create two extra partitions too in the 1st hard disk with names "D" and "E".

Though I tinkered with many things (including FDISK, Partition Magic, Computer Management Snap-in and Modular Devices path in the regedit.exe), I still could not get what I wanted.

I am ready to start from scratch with absolutely nothing on my hard disk. I have all the o/s cd's and software needed. Just need to find a solution...no matter how much time and work it takes. I mean I can install, format, install again, create/delete/rename partitions etc etc.....i don't mind, BUT PLEASE DO HELP ME GET THE ABOVE AT THE END !!!


(I will use my 98 only for playing 1 or 2 games.....and i would really want it to use the Drive letter X (the 98 partition, i mean). And I really want the XP to be in the C partition, which is the o/s I will use 99% of the time).

Thanks so much guyz.

CASTLECASCADE

forgot to mention.........

I also tried changing the active/primary partitions and copied to the boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com files to different partitions. That didn't help either (maybe I didn't do it correctly.........or maybe that is not what I am supposed to do................................................ .................you tell me!)

tlarkin

why don't you just run windows xp period, then download the free version of virtual PC from MS, then run windows 98 as a virtual machine? 98 has a lot less of support these days, and a virtual machine would be ideal in my mind.

CASTLECASCADE

Hey................THANK YOU!

I have heard of that thing....virtual machine. I am gonna find out what that is and see if it works for me.

Will update my results here. Meanwhile, anyone else.........please feel free to add any comments.

(even if virtual machine WORKS, I am still CURIOUS to know if it would have worked without virtual machine..............since I used up about 12 hours trying this)

kof2000

use bcdedit, i had 2k,xp,98,vista,osx,ubuntu in one menu to choose from just point them to your drives.

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heyman421

virtual machine is the way to go

then you don't have any downtime while messing with inferior o/s because your background apps can still continue to work the whole time.

kof2000

we dont know his system specs. he may not have enough RAM to run all those.
you can't game like you would in a virtual machine like you would in a normal os.

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QX9650@4.2 swiftech |9600@3.0 9700 nt
780i | 790fx
8gb ddr1200 | 8gb ddr1200
2x150gb 3x1tb |2x250gb
3x8800gtx |3x2900xt 1gb
2x20xdvdrw |2x20xdvdrw
15in1 card reader |15in1 card reader
ng15/g9 |ng15/g9
1200w psu |1200w psu
2x28" LCD |2x28" LCD

heyman421

Well, he should just use a dos emulator, then, and save a lot of time/hard drive space.

computermaineack

If you do still want to partition your drives what you should do is go ahead and install XP on your harddrive, letting it format in the process. Then, go into Computer Management and change the partitions.

Although I would agree that a virtual machine is probably the best option...it consumes much less harddrive space and is ideal for your situation.

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CASTLECASCADE

THANKS to each of you for your input.

Going with the majority, I installed Virtual PC 2007.

After going through the initial setting by allotting RAM (128) and Virtual Disk Space (4gb), I made the ".vmc" and ".vhd" files for WINDOWS 98.

I thought the 98 would be installed to that ".vhd" file (isn't that supposed to be a virtual hard disk). BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO INSTALL 98 using Virtual PC.

It asks for cd.....I inserted it and then it says that there is NO FAT32 partition in my hard disk (which is true since I only have NTFS partitions). But after allotting 4gb of virtual space, do I still have to create another FAT32 partition to install 98??

How does the the whole "installation of 98 using Virtual PC" thingy work ??

Also what do they mean by "Virtual Machine additions".

Please help guyz.................thank youuuu