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I have a HD laying around and was wanting to try dualbooting w/ 98 and 2k.I have 98se on my little girls pc.I have 2 seperate hd's..her's w/ 98 and the new one.I will have to run them both off the same ide cable"master and slave"
What would be the least painful way to go about this Will the hd that has 2k have to be the master or does it matter??
I guess I could use PartitionMagic and have both on the one drive,but the drive is only 20 gigs.I would like both drives hooked up.
Help a brother out
BigC it don't matter what HDD its on or wether its master or slave. When your in the Win2k setup menu for formatting and partitions and such... Just selectthe drive from in there do what u need to do and install. The install will pick up Win98se on the other drive and create the boot loader for ya
Master is a 2gig with Win 98, Slave is a 60gig with dual boot Win 98/win 2000.
I can dual boot off the slave drive to either Win 2000 or Win 98. WIn 2000 calls it D: but Win 98 swaps drives and calls it C:. This is confusing at times when looking for files since the 60gig can be either C: or d: depending which windows I boot. Also I have had some problems installing things since most programs default to c: but Win 2000 is D:. What happens is that I over write files on C: I don't want to, if I forget about the drive letters. The installs work ok, but I lose my old stuff which is why I run this system this way, to keep old stuff!
Now if I set Bios to boot to the 2 gig drive then that is actually C: and called such. If I set Bios to boot to the 60gig slave drive, Win 98 calls it C: but Win2000 calls it D: still, ecven though it is the boot drive.
I would defenatly recommend making the 2000 drive Master! That should make the boot drive C: no matter what you boot into.
Now I wonder what will happen to my system if I swapp the drives to make win2000 the master, most likely fubar my whole system since everything will be looking at the wrong drives as 2000 has set it as d: durring installs.
In any case all works well and was very easy to set up. One problem I have noticed is an old program in win 98 stopped working when I installed a new program in Win 2000. It seams the new updated files for kodak were not compatable with the older program or something. I could not use default folders durring install of the new program because it over wrote the files needed by the old program, and they had to be in the correct place.
In most cases I personally like to just run 98 on one drive and 2000 on another, then just choose which I want to boot to. I use the dual boot both on the same drive setup mostly for my kid so she doesn't half to mess with changing drives and keeps her stuff away from mine in 98. User id's do a decent job of that in 2000.
You need to install 98 first. If you're using 2 seperate drives then 98 will be installed on the C drive. When you install Win2K you tell it you want to do a new install not an update, then select the D drive and install it there.
2K will setup a dual boot menu.
You can install Win2K first BUT it's much more diffcult.
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Will the hd that has 2k have to be the master or does it matter??
