2 Hard drive and 2 windows setups

I have a 250 gig hard drive with windows xp in it and then I have a 40 gig
hard drive with windows 98 in it.
when I try to boot into the windows 98 I get the following msg:
"Insufficient memory to initialize windows

Quit one or more memory - resident programs or remove unneccsary utilities
from your config.sys and autoexec.bat files and restart your sys.
Press any key to continue.

What must I do to get the windows 98 to boot?
Windows xp will boot no problem there and I can remove the 40 gig and put it
in another computer and it will boot up no problem but to boot up in my
system it will not. I have unplug all of the stuff to my 250 gig and still no
help?

Can anybody help me?

Thanks

=?Utf-8?B?Qmxlc3NlZF9Cb2I=?= voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
microsoft.public.win98.setup on Wed 06 Dec 2006 10:08:02a:

I have a 250 gig hard drive with windows xp in it and then I have a 40
gig hard drive with windows 98 in it.
when I try to boot into the windows 98 I get the following msg:
"Insufficient memory to initialize windows

Quit one or more memory - resident programs or remove unneccsary
utilities from your config.sys and autoexec.bat files and restart your
sys. Press any key to continue.

What must I do to get the windows 98 to boot?
Windows xp will boot no problem there and I can remove the 40 gig and
put it in another computer and it will boot up no problem but to boot
up in my system it will not. I have unplug all of the stuff to my 250
gig and still no help?

Can anybody help me?

Thanks


To run a dual-boot setup like you want Win98 must be installed first as
it has to have the C:\ for it's boot drive. Xp on the other hand is
happy to reside on any drive you care to install it.

As I have found out recently, Win98 is not comfortable with drives over
137 Gigabytes. This sucks for me as I'm running a 200Gig with 98SE on
C:\ and XP Pro on D:\ now G:\. How the f**k that happened I'm not sure
but it still works. I have a second 80Gig drive that is now D:\ in both
versions of Windoze and wish to remove it and get Unbutu Linux working
again as a third boot choice. I have a drive F:\ that I can only access
from XP. Not critical but many times find myself in 98 needing a file
that is out of reach.

If you can back-up your critical files I would suggest re-formatting the
250Gig and re-installing both Windoze starting with 98. Preferably
98SE. 80 Gigs would give you more than enough for 98, 80-137 as a
common drive to access from both Windoze and the rest formatted for XP.
I left everything as Fat32 as that's what I'm used to tho NTFS is
supposed to best for XP.

As an aside be careful which disk utilities you use in the various
flavours of Windoze. Older Windoze utilities can thrash your XP
install.

Google is your friend. Just plug dual-boot in and you'll find tons of
stuff relative to your needs.

Hope this helps


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)

Is the 40GB drive the Primary Master drive? It needs to be.

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

"Blessed_Bob" wrote in message
...
I have a 250 gig hard drive with windows xp in it and then I have a 40 gig
hard drive with windows 98 in it.
when I try to boot into the windows 98 I get the following msg:
"Insufficient memory to initialize windows

Quit one or more memory - resident programs or remove unneccsary utilities
from your config.sys and autoexec.bat files and restart your sys.
Press any key to continue.

What must I do to get the windows 98 to boot?
Windows xp will boot no problem there and I can remove the 40 gig and put
it
in another computer and it will boot up no problem but to boot up in my
system it will not. I have unplug all of the stuff to my 250 gig and still
no
help?

Can anybody help me?

Thanks

How much RAM is in this machine, and how much in the machine where this
drive works OK?

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184447/en-us
Error Message: Insufficient Memory to Initialize Windows
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Blessed_Bob" wrote in message
...
I have a 250 gig hard drive with windows xp in it and then I have a 40 gig
hard drive with windows 98 in it.
when I try to boot into the windows 98 I get the following msg:
"Insufficient memory to initialize windows

Quit one or more memory - resident programs or remove unneccsary utilities
from your config.sys and autoexec.bat files and restart your sys.
Press any key to continue.

What must I do to get the windows 98 to boot?
Windows xp will boot no problem there and I can remove the 40 gig and put
it
in another computer and it will boot up no problem but to boot up in my
system it will not. I have unplug all of the stuff to my 250 gig and still
no
help?

Can anybody help me?

Thanks