DUAL BOOT-WIN98SE/WIN2000

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Ok, i had the unfortunate pleasure of reformatting my HD ( DAMN bluescreen of death was happin like every min or so...)

I need Win2000 for work, but the gamer still burns with'n me :p

Seeing that win98 works better for most games, i was wondering on how to do a duel boot. RIght now im running in win98se, and i wanna put on WIN2000. I do have a seperate HD to intstall other OS (if thats better?) I guess i was wondering, will WIN2000 overight Win98, or will it ask to do a duel boot on my other HD. Lastly, where do i install win2000, in win98, or boot with win2k cd in the cdrom/boot disk?!?!?!?!

May be a stupid question ( if it makes any sense, but this is my 1st time doing this duel thingy and have very little sleeeeeep )


Thanx...
 
OK, here goes.

If ur 2 HDD are of diff. speed, use the faster one for the W2K and the slower for Win98.

Put the Win98/FAT32 on slow HDD 01 and make it Primary Master. The W2K will go on the faster HDD at Primary slave. Install Win98.

You can either install W2K from within Win98 or u can use boot to DOS prompt and install. U can also boot from CD, it's all up to you.

For speed's sake, use the Win98 option. Run Winnt32 and select the option to install in a different partition instead of upgrade or you can kiss your Win98 buy buy.

Use NTFS5 without compression for W2K if possible for security and higher performance (applicable for higher-end PC) or FAT32 for compatibility if you want to install your apps from the 2 OS into the SAME location.

If you want to install Linux, do all these b4 install Linux.

If you want RAID, you'll need 2 HDD of similar performance.

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Dual Celeron 300A oc 450, Radeon 64MB VIVO 166 oc 180, 256MB SDRAM, IBM DS 34GXP 20.1GB, Pioneer 10x Slot-in DVD, Yamaha 8424 CD-RW, Yamaha YMF744 XG sound, W2K SP1, Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900U.
 
you can install win9x and win2000 on the same partition, as long as you have the same version of IE and OR on the two OS's. If you don't the first one there will be broken, until re-installed from add/remove > windows components.

The other easy option is to get partition magic and make a small 600MB partition for one of the OS's, and using tweak UI remap all the folders to the other OS's folders (IE my docs, desktop, favourites, program files...) Also install office using /a for network install.
 
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