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DUAL boot Win 98 and Win 2000 Profession

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by nixxo_us

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Hi
I Have a dual boot win 98 and Win 2000 Profesional each os in diferent hardrives but in one computer. Can I go in Win 2000 Profesional format win 98 from win 2000 Profesional, without loosing the mbr information and be able to boot to win 2000 Profesional without any problems?

I had a bad experience already!!! you see I fdisk the hard drive where Win 98 was runing so I could have That hard drive for storage for Win 2000 Profesional. Evrithing when down hill I couldnt boot up to Win 2000 Profesioal at all!!! They told me because Win 98 have the mbr information so if you erase that you can't boot up at all to your drives.Ok so my question is: Can I boot up to Win 2000 Profesional and from within Windows 2000 profesional can I formatthe HDD where Win 98 is runing and not lose the mbr information and boot up again with no problem to Win 2000 Pro?

Your help will be greatly apreciated.
Fernando

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by mike

Well, I let know, to properly dualboot with 98 & 2000 they have to be on the same hard drive but in different partitions.1) make a partition for your 98, leave the rest unconfigured, 2)load 98 on a fat partition. then run setup for 2000 and create apartition in the unconfigured space. I have done this many times. hope this helps

by leviathan82

When Windows 98 and Windows 2000 are combined as a dual boot, you cannot delete either one without having problems. They will share the same files and information. And Windows 98 is the primary OS, so deleting that would prevent Windows 2000 from working. There is no way to avoid this. What you can do, is back up everything onto your Windows 2000 HDD, and reinstall Windows 98 after formatting that drive. Then copy all the files over to the Windows 98 HDD, and then format the Windows 2000 HDD. When you recreate the partitions, you should put Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on the same HDD under different partitions, and use the second drive for storage.

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