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Dual booting a Win98 image & WinXP image

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by dkmc00

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Hi,

I want to dual boot between 2 images. One image
is Win98 and the other is WinXP. They are both
created with Norton Ghost. The computer I want to
load them on is a P4,1.7 Ghz,256 mb ram,20 Gig
capacity. I have created 2 partitions.

I have tried dumping the images, but I am able to
boot from only one at a time. The only way I can
boot from the one partition is to hide the other
partition. I have tried using the boot.ini file
and PartitionMagic's Bootmagic without success.

I have a hunch the trick lies in the order the images are dumped and probably with certain switches with Ghost.

Any tips would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Dan

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by kelleyl

The active partition must be formatted with FAT32 for dual boot with 98 and XP to work. Win98 must be installed first.

Part of your problems may be because you are using an image of XP and not running the setup. When configuring for dual bootwith winXP there are files that XP places on the active (in this case win98) partition then copies the rest of the system files to the winXP partition. There may be switches for Ghost that will help with this but I'm not sure.

Good Luck.

by wlbowers

There is another option that would allow you to have both the XP and win98 running on the same machine at the same time.

Virtual PC is a new program that Microsoft has that creates a virtual machine. This virtual machine has access to all of the host machines components. Drives, ports, ect.

Virtual PC will run only on an XP base.

I watched a demo of Virtual PC. They had the base XP, Server 2003, Win98 and Win2000 all running at the same time.

They had a network created with the host machine and all the virtual machines.

They do recommend single spindle operation.

Good Luck Lee

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