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| Thread ID: 38179 | 2003-09-29 22:26:00 | How do you create 2 Primary partitions? | Jase1 (459) | Press F1 |
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| 179127 | 2003-09-29 22:26:00 | Hi there I have this 80GB HDD, I want to put 2 OS on it . Win98Se and WinXp Pro, I did this before but I didn't realise that OS must be put on a Primary partition, before I just put one OS on Primary and one on an Extended (were there any harm to the HDD when I did this?) . Basically I just want to split my HDD into 3 parts: 1 for Win98Se, 1 for WinXP Pro and 1 small part for backing up my files . So I should have 2 Primary partitions and 1 . . . logical or should it be extended? I've read the FAQ#2 Multi-booting a Windows System and the FAQ#34 How to partition using FDISK in the FAQ section . Its either that I've keep missing where it says how to create multiple Primary partitions or it's not there at all . I have already create 1 Primary partition and when I want to create another one, it just keep saying 'Primary DOS partition already exist' :( . I know I'm doing something wrong or I'm missing a very important step somewhere in here . Please help ^^ Thanks Jase Sen |
Jase1 (459) | ||
| 179128 | 2003-09-29 23:18:00 | Hi Jase, heres a rough guide as to what you have to do: NB its not possible to create two primary partitions and no it wont harm your harddrive. You have to have 1 on an extended partition. 1)Start fdisk, delete all your partitions just to make it easier. 2)Create a primary partition of whatever size you want. This partition will have Win98 on it as you need to install this first. 3)Exit Fdisk and then install Win98. I know you havent created any other extended partitions yet but dont worry about it. 4)When you've done your win98 install boot from your xp cd. This will give you the option to create a new drive in the freespace of whatever size you want. You can create your backup drive space here too. Install xp as normal. When you start your computer you will have a choice of which os you want to boot from. There are other ways to do this but Ive found this to be the easiest. hope this helps. B. |
Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 179129 | 2003-09-29 23:42:00 | Thanks a lot for rough guide, it makes my partitioning a whole lot easier than that 6 pages FAQ that I've just read . I'll post back if I encounter any serious problems . One more little question, as for that back drive, if I made it during the XP installation like you said, can Win98Se put back up files on to it as well? Thanks again ^^ Jase Sen |
Jase1 (459) | ||
| 179130 | 2003-09-29 23:44:00 | the key to this is the order in which you put the operating systems on your machine. You should install from oldest to newest, so win98 comes first then win2000, then winxp etc... I have found that using fdisk it is very easy to create your 3 partitions first and then install your OS. You don't have two primary partitions because in a multiboot boot system there is a file on the primary partition that tells it where the files are. Good luck |
pjg54 (2639) | ||
| 179131 | 2003-09-29 23:47:00 | win98 can only put files to that partition if it is formatted in fat16 or fat32. If you have used winXP and formatted it into NTFS then win98 will not be able to see it. |
pjg54 (2639) | ||
| 179132 | 2003-09-30 00:16:00 | Exactly right, use fat32 if you want to make your backup drive accessible from both operating systems. Use NTFS for Xp and Fat32 for Win98. | Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 179133 | 2003-09-30 00:29:00 | I would still debate using FAT32 for the XP Partition also, as it makes life much easier if you're in Win98 and want to get access to a file on the XP Partition. You're not going to want to do 2x reboots just to get a file off the XP Partition. Sure, there are reader's out there, but iirc they usually cost :-( |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 179134 | 2003-09-30 02:03:00 | I believe you have to have XP on the first primary boot partition, or it won't boot. And yea install 98 first on a partition later down the disk. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 179135 | 2003-09-30 02:53:00 | Err... You can put XP ANYwhere.. even on a secondary HDD.. Its 98 I'd be more concerned about, and put that on the primary... :-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 179136 | 2003-09-30 03:09:00 | This is what I've planed: Win98Se - Primary Partitioin - FAT32 WinXPPro - Extended Partition??? - FAT32 Back Drive - What should this one be? - FAT32 And this is what I've done till now: Win98Se - Primary Partition - FAT32 -------DONE :) WinXPPro - NOT YET DONE - NOT YET DONE -------CANNOT FIND CD :( Back Drive - NO IDEA YET - NOT YET DONE ------- WAITING FOR XP :_| Damn! Where's my XP cd ?:| If I did what Barnabas said, create the back drive during the installation of XP, would it be easier than doing it in FDISK? Thanks Jase Sen |
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