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Windows 98 with preinstalled Windows NT
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. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender. |
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Windows 98 with preinstalled Windows NT
The easiest way to do this is:
Get a boot manager that is capable of booting from the second physical drive. I use: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. You didn't state how the hard drives are mounted. If drive 1 is slaved to drive 0, reverse them. What you will want to do is get drive 1 to be the active drive since W98 has to boot from a fat partition on the first drive. You could also do it by shrinking the NT partition on the first drive and make a boot partition but that is a waste of time and space in my opinion. I would leave drive 0 (NT) unplugged until such time that W98 is installed. You could copy the W98 files from the CD to the hard drive to facilitate installation. You can install the boot manager before or after the W98 installation if you choose to use one. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Paul D.Smith" wrote in message et... 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. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender. |
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Windows 98 with preinstalled Windows NT
The NT bootmenu procedure does not hide the boot sector from the OS that you
select. Therefore the W98 installation will trash the NT loader and you won't get the NT boot menu. It is possible to re-establish the NT boot - people in W2K newsgroup might know how - but it's easier to use a boot manager that hides itself properly. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) "Paul D.Smith" wrote in message et... 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. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender. |
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