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Triple Boot Win98se/winNT 4.0/win2k

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by lizet

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Hello:
I'm trying to do triple a triple booting with win98se, windows nt workstation and windows 2000 professional. I need the three of them for testing installation packages. I've already installed the three OS on different partitions, I set the win98 partition active and primary, I installed BootMagic on it and configured it. When the PC boots, I can see the three OS options, there's no problem loading win98 and winNT but the system gets completly lost when I rty to load windows 2000, any idea why this is happening? What is missing?
Thanks in advance,
Lizet

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by rapidad

Just a few tips, there is a 1024 cylinder limit to the boot routine, if you passed that with w2k that can possilbly cause the behavior you see. Also, if you are testing software, you might want to consider making images of each os and storing them on CD. this way you can load a fresh os for each test session. Both Norton Ghost and partition magic offer this option. We use a library of about 30 different images for each machine and they only take about 10 min to load.

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