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by mavietmaurice

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I have trouble in seting up a dual boot between win98 and windows Pro. I have the error *** Stop :0000007b (0xf7463848 oxc0000.... inaccessible_boot_device. I have already installed win 98 and have two partitions C: and D: so c: for win98 and d: forwindows Pro . but cannot finished without that error. Can somebody help me for that Pb Please I need to set it up very soon for my company, but can't find solution. Thanks in advanced

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by kim2786

From Kim.
I recommand that you install win98 and win 2000 into separate primary partition then use boot magic to select what OS you want to work with. Assume that you know Partition Magic this is how you do it :
1. install win 98 first
2. install applications that you needed.
3. use partition magic6.0 to create second primary partition for win2000 ( 2000MB)
4. set that partition active and reboot.
5. your pc will boot to blank active partition.
6. Now goto setup and make itboot from CDROM , exit and save. Make sure Win2000 CD in your CD-ROM drive.
7. make sure that you install to C: the active partition. DO not delete any partition or you might delete your win98.
8. after complete win2000 , install bootMagic.9. then you can add win98, win2000 to the boot MEnu.
10. I do not agree that you dual boot 2 OS in the same partition. because you do not have control. NO security, Mistake can happen.

Hope this will help you.

by mavietmaurice

HI KIM,
I would like to thank you for your kindness of reserving your time to give me the solution. I going to try as you said and will let you know if that work, anyway Merci.

by cmob1

Depending on how you formatted your hard drive. You cannot install win2000 on a fat32 partition to install win2000, format your D: drive as a ntfs partition. If you have already done this then disreguard. (hope this might help)

by cmob1

This is what you need to do:
1. Delete all old paritions
2. Create a 50% partition on primary and format it to FAT32, install Windows 98. Leave the other 50% unpartitioned.
3. After Windows 98 installed, use Windows 2000 to bootup your system.
4. Follow the setup instruction, install W2K into the remaining 50% of partitons. Select W2K during the first reboot coz it need to finish up the setup.
5. After installation done, you will see a dual-boot menu during system startup.

From: gigsvoo Date: 1/9/03 Status: Not Rated

by thinknologist

Definitely it will damage the boot files of Win98. In my experience the better step to do is:

This is what you need to do:
1. Delete all old paritions
2. Create a 50% partition on primary and format it to FAT32, install Windows 98. Leave the other 50% unpartitioned.
3. After Windows 98 WAS COMPLETELY installed, INSERT WINDOWS 2000. IT WILL AUTORUN PROMPTING YOU TO WINDOWS 2000 INSTALLATION WIZARD. YOU WILL BE ADVISED TO UPGRADE OR FRESH INSTALL.
4. SELECT FRESH INSTALL. YOU WILL BE ASKED TO REBOOT YOUR PC, THEN DO SO.
5. THE LOCATE YOUR SECOND 50% AS WINDOWS 2000 INSTALLATION LOCATION.
6. FINALLY FOLLOW INSTRUCTION.

HAPPY INSTALLING !!!

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