how to install win 98 on win 2000 pro

In my opinion, Partition Magic is one of the safest ways to do this.
Look at:

www.powerquest.com/products/desktop.html

(There are no spaces in the URL)

To create a dual boot on your system,you will need a third party software such as Partition Magic7 or System Commander,so that you will not loose any current data.You can reference their web site
1)www.v-com.com/product
2)www.powerquest.com/
Reference the following sites for more info
1)http://computing.net/howto/advanced/fat32ntdual
2)http://windows200.about.com/cs/dualboot
3)http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/en/
4)www.riva3d.com/dualboot.html
5)www.itp-journals.com/dual_boot_Windows_2000_page1.htm

I have dual booted Windows 2000 and Windows 98 many times before and been very successful. I found that is was a lot easier if you loaded Windows 98 first because the NT boatloader would automatically find Windows 98 and add the option on bootup. You can still do it with Windows 2000 loaded first, so don't worry.

The first thing I need to know is if windows 2000 is on an NTFS partition. If it is NTFS you need another partition or drive that is FAT32. You can use partition magic or hopefully you already have this. If not you are going to have to add a hard drive if you don't want to delete windows 2000.

Once you have a second partition or drive you can begin. Make sure the second partition or drive is listed a D:. Boot Windows 98 from the CD-ROM and load it on to the FAT32 Partition (D:). It won't recognize the NTFS partition, so there is no need to worry about what order the drives are in. After loading Windows 98 you can use BootPart or manually enter the partition intothe boot.ini file for windows 2000. BootPart can be downloaded from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
I hope that this has answered your question. It is really not to bad. I have also done it with Linux and not had any problems. The main thing is to keep them on separate partitions. The order doesn't even matter. The bootloader for Windows 2000 does have to be in the Master Boot Record of the first drive though. That is very important.

There is no way of doing it, unless you have your drive as FAT32. Win98 can not be installed on a NTFS partition. Microsoft recomends that you install Win98 first, then Win2000. Good Luck!!

Thanks guys for all of your sugesstions on how to install win98 on win2000. I've gotten it done. with the help of a few computer guys that I work with.

Kristysubber@hotmail.com

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