Apologies if this is a FAQ - I haven't found the answer scanning the web and
I'm now thoroughly confused.
Background:
Windows NT installed on a PC with 2 x 4GB SCSI disks.
Disk 0, Drive C: has WinNT plus some stuff.
Disk 1, Drive D: is empty.
Need to installed Windows 98 since daughters' games need DirectX v4 and
happen to have a copy of Windows 98 to hand.
Aside: Why stick with Windows NT at all you ask? Because it's rock-solid
and after "bed time" it gives me another PC so my wife and I don't have to
fight for our main PC! My experiences with Windows 98 are that it's a pile
of expletive deleted for doing real work! Last blue screen with Windows
NT? So long ago I honestly can't remember. PC is up 24x7x365.25. Need I
say more?
Plan:
Modify boot.ini for Windows NT to include "boot from disk 1, Windows 98"
option.
Trash disk 1 and install Windows 98 on there.
Reboot and hope!
So, will this work? I've seen lots of strange discussions about having to
create a FAT16 on the primary drive but I thought that the Windows NT boot
loader, with its nice little menu, took care of all that crap.
Aside: I know about NTFS, FAT32 issues. I'm intending to use the drivers
from
http://www.sysinternals.com to provide read/write from NT to FAT32 and
read-only from Windows 98 to NTFS, although I don't really care if the
latter doesn't work!
Thoughts?
Paul DS.
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