Dual boot - each on own partition or on own disk? 2

[MalcolmW]

I've got a W2K box, and I need to install W98SE as well, for gaming purposes (my kids, actually)
I'm uncertain as the best approach. Currently I have one NTFS drive, so if I put W98SE on that drive I'd be looking at a partition and changing the partition to FAT32 from NTFS.
The other alternative is to use another physical drive, format it to FAT32, and install W98SE on that. I'm not sure how I could get a dual boot working with that though - ie would I need to put my existing c: NTFS drive as a slave, make the new d: FAT32 the master, put the boot disk on the d: - but would that work???
I got a lot more options than I have knowledge.
Any ideas on which approach would work better?

Finally, I "concerned" about installing W98SE after W2K, as this is really a backwards way to do this. How "concerned" should I be, cause I haven't tried it?

Thanks for your thoughts. Malcolm
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[edfair]

Consider partition magic. Will allow you to make the choice at bootup and is real helpful with the partitioning and filesystem questions.

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[Comtech]

Why is it, every time someone wants to move or create another partition, everyone recommends running out and paying useless $$$ for Partition magic? There are FREE partitioning programs around that work just as well. Just do a search in Yahoo, or Excite, or whatever. I have one on my Utilities page, FREE.
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[prime]

Hey,
I know what you're going through - I spent days working it out for myself, as I run win2k, winME and RedHat Linux all off the one system.

Now, what I remembered was that winNT(win2k) has its own boot manager for windows-specific operating systems - The way I went about doing ME and 2K was Firstly wiping my partition (I have one partition set aside for the System OS) and put windows 98 on it under C:\WIN98. I then put the win2K cd in and installed it as a clean install under C:\WIN2K - this is where the builtin boot manager kicks in - You'll now be prompted with a somewhat similar menu to the Win9x boot menu, with "MICROSOFT WINDOWS" and "MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL" (If you're using professional) as the options - and it's apples from there.

As an answer to your main question - just install them in the same partition/disk - providing you install them under different directories, Windows will take care of it from there.

I hope this helped.

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[MalcolmW]

Where I'm stuck is cuz I need FATXX to boot W98, I guess I need to put a FAT32 partition on my NTFS drive. I was just hoping there was some magical way I could avoid having FAT32 when I don't need it.
Malcolm
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