OK.
I suggest, leave your boot drive the secondary and:
(1) Make your Win98/DOS floppy able to access a CD. Don't
proceed till it can do that. Also, put edit.com on
the floppy. You can get by without other stuff, but
you generally have to be able to edit a text file.
Other good things to add are FDISK, CHKDISK, ATTRIB.
There are more, but these are basic. Use the ones
from windows\command .
Once you have this floppy and verify you can boot from
it AND access a CD, then proceed.
(2) Change the FAT32 partition to FAT16.
(3) Install NT on the FAT16 partition (your backup NT).
Don't create any new partitions or anything else;
just install it. I suggest a different NT directory
name on this drive (I use Winnt and Winnt0, but I
don't get out much). NOTE: NT installs easiest if
you boot another OS, Win98 in your case, and run the
install from the NT CD. To install NT, execute WINNT32.exe
from the I386 directory on the cd (if you run from
DOS, execute WINNT.exe, the 16-bit version).
When you reboot after the NT install, you will be dual
booting on the secondary (NT and Win 98). You will
NOT touch your primary NT (on your IDE master).
If anything goes wrong, the worst that happens is
you rebuild win98 using your carefully created
boot-floppy-with-cd, and you're back where you are
now. This is VERY unlikely. NT install is such that even
if the install of NT itself fails miserably you can still
boot your previous OS. In that case, you can repair the
install.
Don't forget you have your primary NT as a backup of
all these operations. |
