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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spots who wrote (6920)	4/1/1999 1:27:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I'm not exactly sure what you are saying Spots, so i'll take your word for it. Having said that I do dual boot Win98 in a fat32 partition and NT in a NTFS partition on the same drive. Here is what I do. Using PM and prior to installing anything I make a 500 meg Fat16 dos partition, this is my only primary partition. I make the rest of the drive an extended partition and then make 2 logical partitions within it: a 2 or 3 gig fat 32 partition and I format it and a 4 gig NTFS partition, but don't format it. I think for WIN98, the fat32 partition must start within the first 2 gig of a drive, I'm not sure about the NTFS. I then install NT first and then 98. I put NT in the NTFS partition and I let the NT install format it, When using NTFS, the NT install will not recognize the partition as formatted, even though you pre-formatted it in PM. That is because the NT install always formats them as FAT and then converts it to NTFS on first reboot. It is just as easy to let the NT install format it. NT puts NTLDR, ntdetect.com and boot.ini on my C: drive (fat16) Everything else is on D:, my NTFS partition. I then install Win98 on the FAT32 partition. Because win98 can't see the NTFS partition, the fat32 is still D:, so win98 is installed in D:. Win98 will put a few files on C:, the main one is its own version of bootsect.dos. It also puts an entry in the boot.ini file that calls the bootsect.dos file and boots Win98. My NT boot manager lets me pick NT or win98. Win98 is NT aware, it will not overwrite the boot record NT put there. This works very well for me. I have used a Fat32 read only utility program to let NT see the fat32 partiton. This messed up drive letters initially, but I just used disk administrator to give the fat32 partition another drive letter, keeping D: for the NTFS. This is probably as clear as mud about now. Sorry for the length. My dilemna with the new box is getting the right files from win98 onto the newly created fat16 C: drive so that win98 will still boot, even though it is in its own fat32 logical partition. Guess I'll have to read up on the bootsect.dos file. Don't know if it is a generic file I can steal from another machine or if it has a pointer to the correct fat32 partition. Well guess I have something to do now. <gr> For those that are still with me, sorry to ramble. I find it hard to explain these things in a concise post. :) Thanks Dan