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Old September 30th 08, 03:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
mdf
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Default Setting up multiple operating systems on one computer.

Dear John John,

Thanks for the info. We have XP Home edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
and the cd comes in a nice orange folder. The 2 drives are connected through
the same cable with the slave (windows 98) drive with the first cable end and
the master (xp) drive at the end connection. I didn't think it mattered how
they connected on the cable. If this does get a little too dicey I may have
to (shudder) upgrade my older stable programs and use the slave as a data
disc.

Thanks again for your help. I look forward to your response.

TTFN,

mdf


"John John (MVP)" wrote:

This is fairly easy to do and you don't need to reinstall Windows XP to
do this. It will be easier to accomplish what you want if you set the
Windows 98 drive as the Primary Master drive on the primary controller
and put the Windows XP drive on the secondary controller or slave it to
the Master on the primary controller. To avoid errors you can
temporarilly remove or disconnect the Windows XP drive, that way if you
run into problems you can always put the Windows XP drive in it's
original location and boot your computer as you do now. If you move and
slave drives pay attention to the proper location of the drive on the
cable as well as the proper location of the jumpers, more often than not
people run into problems because these two things are not rignt.

Before I give you the remainder of the instructions I need to know the
type of Windows XP cd that you have, is it a full retail/upgrade version
or is it an OEM version?

John


mdf wrote:

Dear Jeggs,

Your info was only slightly helpful as you will note from my situation.

Background:
My old computer power pack died and I am having trouble finding another one,
so I took the hard drive out of that computer and made it a slave in our
other one. The newer computer is running on XP while the old hard drive is
completely Windows98. What I want to do in order to utilize my old programs
and thereby open the related files is creat a duo operating system where I
can have 2 computers in one.

I understand that in order to do this I need to reload windows 98 first and
then the XP program. But what I need to know are the steps I need to take in
order to remove XP and reload in the right order and not have boot problems.

If this is understandable, please let me know if you can help with my lack
of knowledge.

Thanks,

mdf


"Jeggs" wrote:


To set up more than one os on the same computer, you need a partition
manager like fdisk and a boot manager like Bootmagic.

1. First make partitions for each os you will install.
2. Now assign names and icons to the partitions in the boot manager.
3. Finally start each partition and install the os's on them.


I hope this has come in handy.


Thanks Jeggy