PC Installation

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1. Boot with a Windows 98 boot disk in A: and the Windows 98 Disc in the CD-ROM.
2. Answer Boot With CD-ROM support
2. type format c: at the a:\ prompt and answer yes.
3. Switch to the CD-ROM drive, typing E: or whatever the drive letter is.
4. Type setup and install 98
5. After that, install NT as usual

First you will need some additional tools - I have done this but needed BootMagic and PartitionMagic to make it all work. The problem comes from NT not being able to read FAT32 and Win98 not being able to read NTFS. Format your hard drive from a boot disk. Using FDISK partition the drive into 3. Install MS-DOS to the first partition. Next install NT and load Bootmagic and Partitionmagic. These products will enable you to set either partition as a primary and so make the relevant operatingsystem bootable. The products come with instructions on how to install multiple operating systems.

The easiest solution that I have found is as follows.

1) Boot with win98 Floppy.
2) create 2 partitions on the drive, sized appropriately. If you only have the one drive and will need for both OS' to share data (documents, PSTs, etc.) create 2 logical drives in the extended partition.
3) Restart the system with the win98 diskette and enable CD support.
4) Format the Lead partition with FAT32 and one of your logical drives with FAT16 (Both 9x and NT can read that FS)
5) create a win98directory (NOT WINDOWS)on C:. CD to this new directory. Switch to the win98 directory on your CD-ROM drive and copy the contents to the directory you just created on C:.
6) SYS c:, then remove the floppy and the CD from their drives and reboot.
7) When the system comes back up, change to the win98 dir on C: (your CD-ROM will not be available). Setup win98 from here. When this procedure is complete, continue to the next step.
8) Boot the machine with your WinNT boot disks.
9) Run the WinNT setup from the CD-ROM, and specify that it should install to the remaining logical drive.

WinNT will set up it?s own boot manager after installation. This will present you with options for each OS installed on the system.

Voila. You have just installed a Win9x/NT Dual Boot system.

If you go to www.bootdisk.com it has complete step by step instructions that you are looking for.

Good Luck

do what tommugg@novagate.com answer#3 has to say and that will do the trick if not you have a nother problem
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do what tommugg@novagate.com answer#3 has to say and that will do the trick if not you have a bigger problem
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