Newbie needs help partitioning and installing OS on Slave drive

[DigitalSamurai]

HI,

I would like to create a primary partition on a slave drive.

My master drive is NTFS Win XP and is 30 gig.

My slave drive is 40 gig. I would like to put Win98 (OEM I believe) on it.

I have tried to get to FDisk on my master drive but I can’t find a disk that will get me to the prompt AND have Fdisk on it.

I have no idea what cluster size and file architecture to use i.e. 32k, Fat 32?

I am a novice to this sort of thing and am very worried about erasing my master drive or making it unbootable.

Would someone be so kind as to give me precise instructions (step by step) so that I can do this safely?

Thank you very much,
Gene
genefrizzell@hotmail.com

 

[gpalmer711]

Check Out thread779-661488

Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[linney]

This is the basic instructions for Dual Boot. There are other options but they involve third party programs and some experience and knowledge.

HOW TO: Create a Multiple-Boot System in Windows XP (Q306559)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q306/5/59.asp

Dual Boot Question
thread779-547336

Dual boot to 98 after installing XP first
thread779-284874

 

[DigitalSamurai]

wow

I have about 41 pages of info to read---thx for all the threads, links, etc. I will be back in a few days once i have looked thru it all.

Thanks,
Gene