Installing a 98'Win on the same disc, but another partition

[firelex]

Hello, all!
My question is: Is it possible to install a 98'Windows version on the disc, where a Windows XP version already exists?

The disc is divided into two portions by Partition Magic.
What I mean is: should I take a bootmanager programm (e.g. XOSL) or Windows XP does managing of such cases itself?

And by the way : are there any better boot managers as XOSL (it doesn't like to be installed on non-DOS partitions!)

Thanks!

 

[MattWray]

From everything I've read it is very possible, except you should have 98 installed before XP.... Thanks,

Matt Wray

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[smah]

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

 

[wolluf]

Smah's link will tell you how to repair the XP boot loader after installing 98 second. I prefer a third party boot manager -

http://www.boot-us.com

(free for personal use). This installs in the MBR, in a spare (unused) primary partition record (you have 4 available on a disk) or on floppy - so doesn't care what you're partition's filestores are. You can hide the XP installation while you install 98 (tools for this also) and then 98 will get its own independent boot sector (you'll need to install it on a primary partition - so make sure PM has made it so if you use this method). This means uninstalling/wiping one of your operating systems will not affect the other.

 

[firewolfrl]

I use Xosl on 4 60 gig drives
all 4 drives are NTFS and each with its own OS
on the primary (hdd 0) I have it setup this way:
first partiton XP pro 30 gig (NTFS)
second partition XOSL 50 meg (FAT32)
third partition WIn 98 (Fat32)


the XOSL partition is a bootable DOS partition with the XOSL install program and diagnostics tools installed. the win 98 installed with no problems. make sure you hide any other primary partitions on the drive and the partition is active and reads as drive c: in the DOS prompt. Wolluf is correct in the possibility of losing the boot loader. there is a tool in the partition magic folder called PQ boot copy it to your DOS floppy. it is a great tool to make a partition active.
it has been my experience that the 98 becomes active and and I have to restore the XOSL bootloader and XP comes up fine after XOSL is reset.

have fun