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Dual Boot Win2000 and Win 98

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by dda63

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I have two hard drives-first has Win 98se loaded, I loaded Win2000 Pro on the second, clean install, no problems,and made it master. Checked manufacturers-jumpers are set correctly. Updated the bios. Both hard drives show up in bios, however, whenWin 2000 boots, there is no option given which OS to boot to. In 2000 Explorer, only partitions of master hard drive are showing. I have not booted to Win 98-requires a physical change of hard drives, so I don't know if both drives are showing here or not. I have a Pentium 4, 1.7Mhz Gateway, 512MB Ram. 1st HD, IBM Deskstar 75G, second Western Digital 120G. Any Advice? Please simplify-I am not a newbie, but also am not seasoned. Thanks in advance, Debbie Clark

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by saihib

Windows 98 needs to be installed on the first partition of the first (read Master) hard drive in order for this to work. Then install Win2K and your boot.ini file will be created which will give you the option of which OS you want to boot.

by windanser

the system partition, Drive C that containes BOOT.ini file must be install on FAT or FAT32 partition if you are going to dual boot. Install win98 first on C:. y then you can install win2000 boot partition on antoher drive or another disk if you want.

by thee loopster

yes. they both have to be installed in the same hard drive to be able to see each other, and install win98 first also make sure you format both systems w/fat32.

by cul8rm8e

correct me if im wrong,you had win98 on first drive,installed the second drive and installed win2k on there, you then shutdown and changed jumpers to make second drive the MASTER?

if this is the case what you have to remember is that on your win98 drive you have a MBR which would allow you to do a dual boot and what you have on second drive (which you have now made MASTER has only boot files for that O/S (win2k

I suggest the simple sollution and change the setup of master and slave back to original config and you will find that a dual boot will be no prob.

if this is not the case then advise me as to exactly what way you have set this up and i can help you a bit more!

by cul8rm8e

correct me if im wrong,you had win98 on first drive,installed the second drive and installed win2k on there, you then shutdown and changed jumpers to make second drive the MASTER?

if this is the case what you have to remember is that on your win98 drive you have a MBR which would allow you to do a dual boot and what you have on second drive (which you have now made MASTER has only boot files for that O/S (win2k

I suggest the simple sollution and change the setup of master and slave back to original config and you will find that a dual boot will be no prob.

if this is not the case then advise me as to exactly what way you have set this up and i can help you a bit more!

by dda63

Win 98 was on first hd, I could not install win2k on second, so that is why I made it master. After installing on 2nd hard drive, (both partitions containing operating systems made active) both FAT32, I received a dual boot option when using hd with win2k-but the option was "Microsoft Windows". When I chose it, I was given an option to install the operating system. W2k did not recognize my other hd. I changed master back to Win 98-no dual option, however, Win 98 did recognize the second hd. I tried to re-install W2k from Win98, but after first restart, screen went blank and did not respond at all! I restarted and applied GoBack to revert drive. I am totally stumped! Debbie

by dda63

Could the problem be compatability between Fat32X and Fat32? When I insert the WD diskette to check the 120Gb drive, start-up information informs me of two drives found(correct)on drive 129, one Fat32X Partition type OCh (LBA), the other Fat32 Partition type OBh (CHS).

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