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| 340695 | 2005-04-02 08:49:00 | Hi Guys, I'm running winXP on my 1st HDD, I have installed a second HDD which I want to set up as a totally independant system with win98SE on it. The plan being that I can then either boot HDD 1 with winXP orHDD 2 with win98SE. Is this possible?. I have searched Google for 'dual boot, second HDD' etc but can't find anything helpful. Any advice would be much appreciated. | stewart (7777) | ||
| 340696 | 2005-04-02 08:58:00 | I think you're meant to install the older version first then XP.... For dual boot. It will work tho. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 340697 | 2005-04-02 09:08:00 | Or, if you have a spare 5 1/4" bay or bays, then you could use a plug-in hard drive caddy with win98 on it which is what I do. If you have 2 spare bays fitted with removable drive bays, then one can be used to clone a backup drive from your main drive. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 340698 | 2005-04-02 22:22:00 | Thanks for the input Guys. Yes win98 should be installed first but that means formatting C:\ drive....major hassle. I've never seen a HDD caddy. obviously it allows the HDD to slide out but presumably you still have to disconnect the IDE and power leads? I was hoping there was an easier solution. | stewart (7777) | ||
| 340699 | 2005-04-02 22:32:00 | To make setup easy: Unplug your XP drive and plug in your 98 drive format and install 98 then plug both drives back in XP master, 98 slave you can then select the drive you want to boot from by tapping F8 as the system boots or edit the boot.ini to give you options on the screen as the system boots. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 340700 | 2005-04-02 22:34:00 | The drive that you want to put 98 on needs to be formated under the FAT32 file system, not the NTFS file system you have on your XP drive. When I first went to XP I had ME on a second drive and apoun boot up windows detects this and a screen pops up asking you what OS you want to boot up. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 340701 | 2005-04-02 22:47:00 | installing the older os first is true only if you are dual booting off one disk, you are not. you say you wish to install 98 on a secound hard disk This is what I would do disconnect the ribbon cable to the xp disk install the secound disk and install 98 on it then reconnect the xp disk. Then use the bios to change the boot order so that you get the os of choice or there is floppy based bootloader I use that can be setup to allow you to select your boot device ( good for Bios's that dont support cd booting) |
beama (111) | ||
| 340702 | 2005-04-03 01:25:00 | Thanks for the info Guys, I understand what you are saying and it sounds right. Beama, where can I get a copy of the floppy bootloader? Cheers. | stewart (7777) | ||
| 340703 | 2005-04-03 02:55:00 | I have it at work. ill get back to you watch this space I think I may have posted a link for it about a year ago do a forum search on sbm or boot managers | beama (111) | ||
| 340704 | 2005-04-03 02:59:00 | set up 98 on the second hdd as instructed here then do this........plug em both in using the xp drive as master on ide channel#2 .........then boot to 98 drive and install the following program ....[boot-us]... it's a 'third party' boot manager and itll allow you to dual boot both os/s ......very simple to setup too......and free....... http://www.boot-us.com/ |
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