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yet another dual-boot question
If I have XP on IDE0 and Win98 on IDE 1, is it possible to simply boot up from that disk by swapping the boot drive in BIOS? Will this assign the C:\ drive to the boot drive automatically or will the drive in IDE0 always have priority regarding assignment to C: sorry for making this post more complicated than

Yet Another Dual Boot Question...
Tony Martino n...@spam.com microsoft public windowsnt setup Hello, I am yet another person attempting to dual-boot NT & 98 on the same system. Cannot seem to find enough info to do this with any sucess. Here are my issues & questions: o NT 4.0 SP3 is on my first drive on my primary controller o Win98 is on my second

REPOST: Yet another 98-2k dual-boot question
Although I have not seen the latest BIOS to know if you can change the primary boot disk. An alternative would be to purchase Partition Magic v7 or higher. This software comes with a boot manager which will allow you to dual boot with Ease. You setup each OS you want to boot to in the menu. Then each time you boot

Yet Another Dual Boot Question
If you install the "normal" dual boot way when you boot a screen will ask you which OS you wish to boot to...you pick one....any one...thats the OS that you will be working in when the system starts.No you cannot switch to another OS from the other OS...if you startup in Vista you are in Vista until you reboot and

yet another dual boot question - ide0 & ide1
Charles Dagelinckx dagel...@organon.oss.akzonobel.nl microsoft public win2000 setup Ziggy, As stated in a previous post, I have attempted to install Win2K on my system in dual boot with Win98. After the first failed attempt, and a system restore to eliminate the OS selection screen, I first verified my hardware was

Yet another dual boot question!
Or is there yet another one?) -- Maxwell Bluemeanie "LoneWolf" <LoneWolf@discussions. microsoft.com> wrote in message news:95AC94D8-A29F-44DA-BAAF-010CBADD2319@microsoft. com... Max Couldn't the OP have both drives connected and change the boot drive at boot by entering the BIOS settings.

Yet Another Dual Boot Question...
ZiggyStardust impc...@rols1.net microsoft public win2000 setup As stated in a previous post, I have attempted to install Win2K on my system in dual boot with Win98. After the first failed attempt, and a system restore to eliminate the OS selection screen, I first verified my hardware was Win2K complient.

Sorry, Yet ANOTHER dual boot question.......
Thom Bronez bro...@computer.org microsoft public windowsnt setup Is it possible to use the WINNT boot menu to dual boot between WIN95/98 and WINNT in the following situation? 1 disk, two partitions Active partition = WINNT on NTFS Other partition = WIN95/98 on FAT32 Microsoft knowledge base article Q157992 ("Triple

Yet another Win XP, Win 2000 Partition Question....
Use the Partition Magic Boot Manager to choose which OS I'll boot. I would appreciate any cautions, tips or advice from folks who have done it this way, andI have an open mind in case there is a better way. Thanks in advance for your time and advice. Eric Eric Zwicky Technical Manager, Comcast Richmond,

Yet another Dual Boot question
Dan Christensen dan....@12move.dk comp os linux setup Garry Burgess wrote: Dan Christensen, 1. When you dual boot Win2K with Linux, do you have Win2K on an NTFS partition? I have heard that the Lilo can handle Windows 2000, but nobody has every made it clear if it can handle it when Windows is on an NTFS system.

Yet another dual boot question
When setting up a dual-boot situation between Vista and XP, you need to decide if you want to boot from Vista or XP. In my case I wanted to use the Vista bootloader so I copied these 3 files from my XP root directory to my Vista root (boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr). I then edited the Vista copy of boot.ini to

Yet another dual boot question (NT needs to be C:)
I dual-booted 98SE and Win2kPro. Upgraded 98 to Me (and saved 98 settings so I could uninstall if needed) and then uninstalled Me and went back to 98SE. Now, 98 will only boot in Safe Mode. Looking at the Device Manager, there were alot of duplicate hardware settings. So, I deleted all double entries.

Yet another dual-boot question
My goal is to first create a dual boot system, so that I can still use my old Windows 98 installation, while I build and test the Windows XP system. I currently have Windows 98SE running on a 20 GB hard disk, with an additional 100 GB hard disk used for data purposes alone right now. In the near future,

Yet another dual boot question
OK, I've searched the entire newsgroup and didn't find anything that reflected my question, so here goes. I dual-booted 98SE and Win2kPro. Upgraded 98 to Me (and saved 98 settings so I could uninstall if needed) and then uninstalled Me and went back to 98SE. Now, 98 will only boot in Safe Mode.

Yet Another Dual Boot Question...
Make sure the first primary parition isn't FAT 32 NT will place boot files there Convert FAT32 in the new partition to FAT (should I go with NTFS?) Yes of NT's goin to be your only OS Install WinNT into the second partition (does the WinNT install routine prompt for a partition?) Yes it does And you can place all

Yet another dual boot question-Sorry!
Hollins hollinsDEL...@mindspring.com comp os ms-windows nt setup misc I need to run WindowsNT 4 and DOS 6.2 on the same machine; however, because of limitations posed by some of the software we use on our networked computers, (which requires a saved file have the same path to the executable directory on every

Yet another Dual boot question
2004 page 41 -- "Confidential fo Windows Users", -- it says that you can install RH without overwriting the NT boot partition from the Boot Loader Configuration screen, by selecting the Change Boot Loader Configuration and clicking the Do not Install a Boot Loader radio button. Then: "When you click the Next button

Yet another dual-boot question...
I case it doesn't turn up reasonably quickly in a Google groups search, this is what I do to get grub to work: First boot the Fedora CD or DVD in rescue mode. Then run /mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub from the rescue mode command line. Then enter the following on he grub command line: root (hd1,0) setup (hd0) quit and

Yet another Dual Boot Question
But I still have a few questions. 1. When you dual boot Win2K with Linux, do you have Win2K on an NTFS partition? I have heard that the Lilo can handle Windows 2000, but nobody has every made it clear if it can handle it when Windows is on an NTFS system. 2. The first time I did boot Linux, [from a floppy],

Yet another dual boot question!
Just Geo1 justg...@aol.com comp os ms-windows nt setup misc In article <3501F3ED.92BD4...@mindspring.com>, Hollins <hollinsDEL...@mindspring.com> writes: I need to run WindowsNT 4 and DOS 6.2 on the same machine; however, because of limitations posed by some of the software we use on our networked computers,