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NT installation problems on dual system

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by jingernut

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Hi There

If any one can offer any suggestions on the following problems I would appreciate it. I am running a dual system with XP,98,ME,2000 and NT. I can get all the above operating systems on my PC with no problems apart from windows NT. Upon attempting to install windows NT I get the following message when choosing what partition to install NT on "setup encountered an error while updating partition information on 8063 Disk 0". I am running NT off the logical partition with windows 98 on the primary. I have made sure that win98 has been formatted using the fat 16 file system, I have tried formatting NT using both the NTFS and Fat file system. Which made no difference.

Please can any one help?

Cheers

Martin

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by jingernut

That will not work, I know that NT cannot run off a system using the fat 32 format. Thanks for suggestion anyway. I managed to solve the problem by starting again but installing windows 98 (fat 16) then WinNT (Logical partition, NTFS),Windows 2000 (Logical partition,NTFS) the rest I put on the primary partition. Thanks again

Cheers

Martin

by curlergirl

Not a direct answer to your question - but I wonder why you are trying to run so many operating systems on one PC? If you can afford to spend a couple hundred dollars, look into a product called VMWare (www.vmware.com) - it allows you to run multiple operating systems without having to reboot and/or partition your drive the way you are doing. We've found it to be very useful as a support organization trying to support lots of different desktops w/different OS's. It does require a bit more memory than a conventional multi-boot setup like yours, but it saves a lot of time if you're having to reboot all the time. Hope this helps!

by jingernut

Not a direct answer but defintely something I am interested in and will have a look at. Thanks for you help

Cheers

Martin

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