NT installation

Just boot to the NT diskettes or CD-Rom. In the setup, you will be given the option of using the existing drive configuration. Don't format it- just leave the existing partition. NT will be installed along with Windows 98 and you will have a dualboot system when you're done. NT WILL NOT read any information from the Win 98 install. All programs will have to be reinstalled to use them. (unless their DOS programs) Hope this helps!

The one glitch that was not addressed in answer 1 was fat32. You cannot install NT 4 on a fat32 partition. If 98 is running on fat32 you will have to use a utility like Partition Magic to convert it back to fat16. If your partition is larger than fat16 will allow, you will have to do some juggling.

There is a patch to allow NT4 to read fat32, but the boot files must still reside on fat or NTFS.

The other consideration is hardware compatability. NT is not as hardware tollerant as 98. You need to ensure that all your cards and devices have driver support for NT before you make the install attempt.

Other than that, it's a piece of cake!

Ray

If your system has WIN98 originally installed, meaning WIN98 has formatted your drive with only one partition and no space is left on the drive, then there is no way you can install NT 4.0 Thid is because the initial install process of NT uses 16 bit FAT partition whereas WIN98 uses 32 bit.

To dual boot WIN98 and NT, I suggest that you re-create your disk into two partitions. Install WIN98 on the partition as Drive C:. If asked to convert partition into 32-bit during installation, answer no( and do that later). Once WIN98 is installed and after a couple of reboots, everything is OK then you can start to install NT.

Install NT on the other partition and decide whether or not you want NTFS partition ( which I strongly suggests). WhenNT installation is completed, you should then get the screen menu to select which OS to run.

Hope this helps!!!

You can install NT from CDROM, network share, and HD. The most important think you should do is preparing a boot partition(active primary partition) formatted using FAT or NTFS, not FAT32 because NT won't able to write boot loader on it.

Windows NT on Windows 98
Answer #2 is best. I installed Partition Magic on Win98 (Fat32), resized the Fat32 partition as required, moved the Fat32 partiton to make space for a Fat16 in first 2Gb of drive, installed NT 4.0 on Fat16. Partition Magicwill also allow converting the Fat16 to NTFS if you want to.

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