ed h

I know that if I desire to set up a dual boot with Win98 and WinXP that I
need to install Win98 first. Does this still apply if I use a third party
partition manager (Partition Magic)? I'm wondering if the method they use to
hide partitions from one another would overcome the problems created when
WinXP is installed first. Thanks.
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Ed H
Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP1
60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

rjk

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...multiboot.mspx
http://www.theeldergeek.com/d.htm

regards, Richard

rjk

ooops!
http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

regards, Richard

jeff richards

The reason that W98 needs to be installed first is that it does not include
a boot manager, so the installation just stomps all over the XP boot
manager. If you are installing a third party boot manager then this problem
simply does not exist, as it knows that the whole purpose of the
installation is to give you access to different operating systems
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)

ed h

Thanks, that's what I was thinking.
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Ed H
Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP1
60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.