Dual Boot Win2K and 98

Try a boot manager, like PQBoot by PowerQuest. But I do believe that if you put 2k on drive D it would have set up a boot option system. You might be able to consult Microsoft's Knowledge Base.

Sorry couldn't be more helpful.

1)In Win2K
Right Click My Computer
Select Properties
Click the Advanced Tab
Click Start-Up and Recovery
At the Top there is a drop down menu that let's you choose the default Operating System
2)To correct the Boot.ini,if you prefer to use
Edit Boot.ini and placethe Win98 launcn command line above Win2K
Win2K works better with 1

since your drive c:\ is your primary drive where you converted to ntfs win98 cannot place its bootfiles over it hence the hang and other errors.the only workaround i can think of is that to revert back to drive c in to fat32 by using the recovery console or your fdisk utility then install win98.then drive d will be your w2khome.

the system always boot from the active partition so by giving the path in boot.ini of windows 98 will wont solve your problem you have to change the active partition, instead of that you can do one thing that you can set the C partion in fat16 and then install the windows98 and windows2000 on C drive only that will make dual booting automatically

your c: drive needs to be either fat16 or fat32 for this to work. win98 needs to place files on c:, even though it's installed to d:, but win98 cannot access ntfs volumes. the easiest way to set this up, if you can afford to do this, is to start from scratch. install win98 first to the c: partition, then install win2k 2nd to the d: partition. the win2k installation will automatically recognize the presence of win98 and take care of the boot.ini for you. you can format c: using either fat16or fat32, but do not use ntfs. hope this helps.

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