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by poettone 1 view

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I have attempted to dual boot these systems together with utter failure. I am using seperate drives for each. I have tried with win9x already installed, no good. I have tried with NT loaded first no good. I loaded 98 on one drive took it out of the system and loaded nt on the other drive then re-installed both drives no good. I have also tried loading windows 98 and using system commander still no luck. If anyone has done this PLEASE HELP..

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by sheryl v

We used to do all of our systems with a dual boot, DOS in one partition & WINNT in the other. You have to have both drives present so that they are "aware" of each other. It's a LOT easier if you do the Win9x (DOS) first on the the primary drive which should be a FAT drive, not FAT32. The second drive MUST be a slave drive, they cannot both be primaries - adjust the jumpers on the physical drives accordingly.

Once this is set, it should automatically boot to the primary drive and give you the choice of which operating system to boot off
of.

Hope this helps.

by poettone

Sheryl,

Thank You for the reply. As you stated In placeing the drives on the same chain, One (C:) and the other Secondary, (D:) I have done this. The only thing that I haven't done is make the 9x drive as fat. So from there I have been unable to access either drive from each other. In other words if I load win9x first then install NT on the other drive, I then cannot get to my 9x drive. If I install Nt on the first drive and then install 9x then I cannot access NT. As stated I have tried installing 9x on C with only one drive installed, removing that drive then installing NT on the C with only one installed then placing 9x as primary and nt as secondary then trying to run System commander on 9x to initialize both mbr's no luck. Am I doing it all wrong? I have successfully loaded many multiple os's 3.1 9x, 9x & linux , mandrake, red hat and torbo linux without this much trouble. Any more suggestions would be appreciated,,,,,,,,,,

by poettone

Sheryl,

Sorry but was unable to goto that page, it states there was an error, I have tried in vain since you replied, Thanks anyway, I decided to scratch that plan anyway to much trouble!

by dle

Your drive C must be FAT16 in order for you to dual boot. That means saying NO to large disk support when running FDISK to set up the partitions.

Here are your possible setups:
FAT16 on both drives = both O/S will be able to access all files onboth drives.

FAT16 on drive 1 & NTFS on drive 2, only NT will be able to access the second drive.

FAT16 on drive 1 & FAT32 on drive 2 = only Win98 can access the files on drive 2. NT's boot partition files (\WINNT) must be installed on drive 1.

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