Install WINNT in WIN98

[james777]

Hello All,
I got 40Gb drive and partitioned as below

C: 1.9GB -- FAT16 -- Primary
38GB extended -- Primary.
10GB - NTFS -- Logical
10GB - NTFS -- Logical
5GB - FAT32-- Logical
5GB - FAT32-- Logical
1GB - LinuxSwap
7GB - Linux
I Installed Win98 and trying to install WinNT on it using the 3 NT boot disk's. Finally It gives two kinds of errors at the end
1) sometimes it gives no Hard drive found
2) Sometimes cylinder is more than 1024..

Can anyone guide me to install NT on 98..

 

[wolluf]

Where did you install win98 (which partition?)
How did you create the partitions - particularly the ntfs ones (NT may not be happy if they've been created by for example Partition magic).

Where are you trying to install NT - and what service pack level is your NT install CD? (before SP4, NT can only see the first c.8GB of drives larger than this - you can use this to get over this hurdle:-

http://www.htl-steyr.ac.at/~morg/drivers/NT_Atapi/)

I see you have Linux partitions too - so do you have linux installed?

If you give a better idea of your complete objective, I'm sure we can help (though NT server forum is probably not the best place).

If you want 98, NT and Linux multiboot, without using a third party boot manager (on 40GB disk, NT pre-SP4), this is what I'd do.

Start with disk wiped.

If you're happy with 2GB system partitions for 98 & NT (which should be fine - you can give them both another data partition if you need it & relocate Program Files there if necessary).

Boot from win98 boot floppy and create a 2GB Fat16 partition and install 98 into it.
Boot from NT install CD, create a 2GB Fat16 partition during the install and install NT into it (if it has trouble seeing the disk, use the driver Iinked above).

Should now have 98/NT dual boot. Use Fdisk to create a logical fat32 partition for data in win98 and Disk Administrator to create an NTFS one in NT.

Then install Linux in the remaining space, allowing it to install lilo or grub (which will pick up the windows installations) - giving you a triple boot.

There are many options/alternatives, so please post back if this is not what you want.

 

[james777]

Do i need to clean-up the whole disk..?

What i want to do is Keep the current Win98(2GB Partition)on C:\ and format the remaining whole disk and try to install winNT.. Does this work..

QQ: Is it possible to install Win2003 server Instead of WinNT ..

I plan to install Red-hat linux 9 after win98/ winnt or w2k3

Thank You for you answers and help..

 

[james777]

I Cleanuped the disk and re-installed both win98 and winnt. and it worked fine as you said..

Now i am able to see the NTFS partitions in win98 .
Is there a way/utility that makes the NTFS partitions not viewable in Win98.

 

[wolluf]

If 98 is installed on fat16 partition, then you can install NT as dual boot - but:-

1. Remove all the other partitions before you do this.
2. Use the updated atapi driver I linked so NT can see whole disk

Yes you can install 2k3 instead of NT - but you haven't answered my question about your objective. Just about any multi-boot can be achieved (as my previouis post describes) - but don't create partitions ahead of time - just when you need them.

PS - you stil didn't say how you created the curresnt partition structure! Nor your objective.

 

[james777]

Initially I did created partitions with partitionMagic4.0. Then i wiped out all the partitions and installed Win98 first then w2k3..
I used the atapi drive as well..

Now i am able to see NTFS parition on win98 using paragan utility.Is there a way/utility that makes the NTFS partitions not viewable in Win98.
Thanks

 

[wolluf]

98 can't read NTFS partitions without third party software/driver - so I'm a bit confused by you wanting to make NTFS NOT viewable. If you're using a Paragon utility which is making them viewable, can't you just uninstall it?

(usually the question is other way round - how can you read ntfs from 98 -

http://www.sysinternals.com

have freeware for this).

If you use a boot manager, you can 'hide' other partitions when booting the one you want (boot magic will do this - as will my favourite at

http://www.boot-us.com)

- so they're totally invisible.