Installing win98 after XP

[Romeo26222]

Iam using winxp and it is a clean install on a NTFS partition can I install win98 on another partition now or not?
thanx

[Teliger]

Put in the Win98 floppy and get to a dos prompt.  Type FDISK and delete the NTFS partition.  It will be a non-dos partition you are deleting.  Once it\'s gone, partition the drive as a FAT32 and format.  Then install Windows 98!

[Sumeet]

I don think thats a good idea b coz if u install win 98 after win xp then it will overide the boot sector of win xp, so install win 98 first and then install win xp on another parttion

[Anonymous]

no it wont

[tox]

actually you could. install XP and then install 98 or 98se would be fine. it will override the boot sector as described but you could return it. the boot sector is in a file named bootsect.dos. i'll see if i could add to this thread to post the how-to but you could find them anywhere in the internet nowadays.

it uses the \"debug\" program that came with your windows 98/98se installation.

[Guest_guest]

If worse comes to worse just run the winxp disk and repair the boot sec.

[Guest]

If you intend on dual booting xp with 98, then make sure you format the drive with FAT32 or it just will not work. Win98 can't read NTFS

[tox]

i got this to work. but given the following:
the active partition of your first harddrive MUST be FAT32. you could choose to place windows XP in the 2nd partition to get it to NTFS and win98 on the first partition for FAT32.

if you install XP first, after the win98 installation you would have to get to the recovery console of XP so better install it before installing 98.

the reason: after the win98 install the bootsector of your harddisk will not be able to recognize the XP installation and you will always boot to 98 regardless of whether the XP installation exists or not.

the work around: boot into the recovery console and do a \"fixboot C:\" to have the boot sector needed for XP.

after this you now have a dual boot 98-XP.

[mytech]

Check this out. I wrote it after installing my triple =boot system. It may help.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mosaddique/Tr...ple%20Boot.html

Alternatively (This assumes win98 will be on the C: (primary hard drive)

As a result of re-installing Windows 98SE any dual / triple boot capability will be lost.

To regain this perform the following steps.

1. Backup the following files prior to re-installing win98 (just in case):

   Boot.ini
   ntdetect.com
   ntldr

2. Install windows 98 and then use the practically-archaic DEBUG.EXE utility to load the boot sector into memory and dump it to a file as follows:

   C:\>debug
   -L 100 2 0 1
   -N C:\BOOTSECT.DOS
   -R BX
   -0
   -R CX
   -200
   -W
   -Q

3. Boot to the Windows XP setup CD or the Windows XP setup
   disks and get into the repair console. Once there, type
   FIXBOOT and press the enter key.

   When your system restarts, you will now boot directly into
   Windows XP, or you'll have your old boot menu back if you
   had one previously.

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