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Has someone done dual booting with: WIN98/WinNT4/Win2K Advanced Server/Win2k Professional, all on the same hard disk?
I've been told that it is impossible.
And i say that it is possible.

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by kees.valkenswaard

It depends on what you call dual booting. Windows 98 and NT is no problem. Windows 95 and Windows 98 together with NT doesn?t work etc. Of course it is possible to use a bootmanager [not from MS] which would allow you to do almost everything you want.
So is it a question or a challenge?
In both cases you have some sort of answer.
Good luck.

by andrew

If you need this capability, I would recommend VMWare (www.vmware.com). This enables you to load any OS's you need (even Linux, BeOS...) and switch between them.

by dmiles

Yes it is possible and to dual boot all operating systems on the same drive,you will need to create the four partitions using a fat file system to get started,it would help to use a third party software to create the partitions
Install Win 98 first,but donot enable large disk support this enables fat32 automattically
Next load WINNT on the second partition and choose to do a clean install and not a upgrade,you will need to install SP4,make this a stand alone server
Install Win 2K Pro,on thethird partition
this will be a clean install,using the start updisk to load the system files.
Add Advanced Server in the fourth partition
Therre is a lack of security in the setup,if you want to read all partitions,this will not be possible because NT does not recognize fat 32.
Good luck

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