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Thread ID: 53581 2005-01-21 08:47:00 Dual booting 98 & 98SE Edward (31) Press F1
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316440 2005-01-21 08:47:00 Hi everyone. I'm having a few problems getting the old computer set up. What I'm tyring to do is get the old computer running with 98. And 98. I plan to get 98 running for my siblings to run their multiplayer games up and running, while having 98SE for me for internet and testing etc. Except that when I boot up it loads straight into 98SE, no bootloader. I'd installed 98, then within that used partition magic to resize the initial partition and made a logical partition to install 98SE onto. I would make another primary partition, but it won't let me. It's an MSDN CD, so the 98 install files are in /win98/setup whereas the 98se are in /win98_se/setup. Therefore, when it asks for the 98 CD, it can't find it (Must copy the contents to the HD). Which raises another issue, it can only see 8GB out of 40GB- no good as a file server.

Please help, I'm about ready to throw the thing out the window :dogeye:

Thanks, Edward
Edward (31)
316441 2005-01-21 09:00:00 Try something like XOSL as a bootmanager. PaulD (232)
316442 2005-01-21 09:05:00 how much of a difference is there between 98SE and just 98? can you just use 98SE? Prescott (11)
316443 2005-01-21 09:18:00 Won't work unless two primary partitions are created and when each is accessed, the other is hidden .

RTFM - specifically the second section of the Frequently Asked Question 44 accessable above . Read the section about creating and booting to multiple primary partitions .

Install Windows 98 on one primary partition and Windows 98SE on the second .

Windows 98 will not co-exist with Windows 98SE .




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