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Travlur

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Loading 98SE and XP Pro on Same PC
« on: August 25, 2006, 12:02:32 PM »
I have 2 HD's installed in my PC.
One has XP Pro installed and running.
I want to load 98SE on to the formatted 2nd drive, so I can use an older digital camera, scanner
and software. with no XP support. I have a boot swap program downloaded on XP drive.
I found a clean install of XP instructions, but 98SE keeps returning "no entries" using search.
Can anyone steer me in the right direction, please.

GX1_Man

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Re: Loading 98SE and XP Pro on Same PC
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2006, 04:13:28 PM »
For best results the oldest WIndows should ALWAYS be loaded first. Win 95, 98 and ME prefer (demand) to be on the first partition of the first hard drive.  ;)

When you load XP second it will install it's own boot manager. N0 additional software is needed.
« Last Edit: August 25, 2006, 04:14:19 PM by GX1_Man »

Travlur

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Re: Loading 98SE and XP Pro on Same PC
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2006, 05:28:17 AM »
I pulled plug on my XP drive.
I was able to set up my second drive using FDISK and set 2 partitions.
C is 2GB
D is 5GB
I formatted C
Restarted using CD support to A prompt.
I assumed my CD drive is now E
Inserted my copy of W/98SE
Changed A to E typed in setup.exe and now get  bad command or file name.
The setup for windows 98SE will not start.
What am I doing wrong?
I did check my fdisk settings and shows both partitions C and D with C active.
Took a lot of reading and trys to do all this, so hope I did it right.

Travlur

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Re: Loading 98SE and XP Pro on Same PC
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2006, 05:50:13 AM »
Found my problem.
The drive is F and the setup file is inside a directory called windows9.
Setup has started.
Don,t understand how CD drive got to F, when my partitions are C and D.
Man, this is frustrating, can't wait to try and load XP on the other partition. lol