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Dual booting Win98 & Win2k

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by computab

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I installed a second hard drive, and started installing Win2k on the second hard drive. Its a new PC with P IV 2.2 Ghx, 512 MB, 60 GB, and Windows 98. The second hard drive, 10 GB, is a slave to the 60 GB, as there are 2 x CDROMs on secondary. Onthe first shutdown, it froze and would not recover. Fortunately I had Symantec Goback installed. Could this be a problem in the BIOS?

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by thechas

Did you choose the dual boot option when you installed W2K?

Were you booting into 98 or W2K?

W98 can have problems with more that 511MB of RAM. The new configuration with W2K may have triggered the W98 large memory problem on your system.

There can be problems if the 2 hard drives are different makes. Make sure that the jumper settings are correct for both drives.

Boot from a floppy, and check the files in the root of the C drive.
There should be ntldr and boot.ini there.

You may need to edit the boot.ini file to get Windows to boot properly.

You can also try booting from the W2K CD, and use recovery console to fix the installation.

Chas

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