First post, by VenomSpark
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Hi all 😀
sorry for asking always silly question, but they are just like i am 🤣
i'll be fast and direct as always: i will recently build a "new" retrobuild for XP and 98, just waiting for the GPU and Mobo from eBay to come this week.
The idea is to install both Windows 98 SE and Windows XP Home Edition on same HDD. The HDD in question is an old Western Digital PATA (it's all black, cool!) with 250GB.
Now my questions and doubts are just two, hoping you super guys can help me clear this out:
1) How do i correctly dual booting? I mean, i remember is not realy easy and complicate process: do i have to install FIRST 98 and THEN WinXP, or viceversa? Because as far i remember, last year i tried this on my other P3 computer, and was successful by divide the drive into two partitions (one FAT32, one NTFS) for 98 and 2000, i installed 98 first on the FAT32 partition and only later Win2000 on the NTFS, this automatically created the boot menu selection and both system worked and booted great. Will be the same also for 98 and XP? help me out maybe how to do it correctly, please!
2) Im afraid 250GB are a little too much. AFAIR Win98 not having native LBA support, i remember there was a sort of barrier limit to 127GB or so, when after reached data loss and corruption was possible to happen. Of course i don't need so much space, so how do you guys advice me to split in two the drive? Also, XP will be in NTFS so that 98 will not read it but is not a big deal, i can boot on XP and move all games\files directly from there to the 98 partition. I just don't know how to split it. Is 80GB for 98 and 170GB for XP okay? Also, there will be not data loss or corruption on 98, even if is a 80GB partition but the HDD remain 250GB? i readed somewhere that you can't trick 98 to make a small partition, as the barrier limit remains despite that, can anyone confirm this?
Thank you so so so much as always 😀