What is the error you are getting ?

The exact error I'm getting is
"Error loading operating system".

How do you install W98 and XP, each on their own hard drive or both on the same hard drive?

your disks were the size used by servers in that motherboards day.
I'm still using 250gb SATA disks for my daily driver.
back then i was using 80gb PATA disks.
Original XP not good for large disks SP3 is the recommended not integral go vanilla as in original.
Your using SATA? THAT mobo only does IDE/PATA what card are you using for that? or is it a bridge adapter on the disks\drives?
Integral is bad for you there are many shitifications of XP out there ask me I’ll message you a link to a special real XP SP3 in DVD iso on archive.
Its special because it has the latest drivers including text mode sata support and has 2,700 views without complaints.

StarTech 40-Pin IDE to 2.5in SATA HDD/SSD/ODD Converter, TAA (IDE2SAT2)
I'm using that to connect the sata drives to the motherboard. it works fine with windows 98 and it was also able to boot freedos. the integral xp does have SP3 intergrated. I let it make its own partition on both drives i tried. the installation seemed to go fine everytime i installed it. i get to the post screen then it will say boot from cd? then no bootable cd found so it looks for the hard drive. it finds it and pops up the error loading operating sysem message. I updated the motherboards bios to 1.32a. i also applied the tualatin/large drive patch to it. when i boot into the bios it sees the entire drive (even the 1TB one).

Nicolas 2000 wrote on 2026-11-10, 10:05:

How do you install W98 and XP, each on their own hard drive or both on the same hard drive?

i currently have 98 on an ide drive. i had it on a 250 gb SATA drive because both were connected when i was installing and due to several partitions on the drives i accidentally chose the wrong one. it was running fine from the sata drive through the same adapter i'm using for xp.

zapbuzz wrote on 2026-11-10, 13:02:

your disks were the size used by servers in that motherboards day. I'm still using 250gb SATA disks for my daily driver. back th […]
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your disks were the size used by servers in that motherboards day.
I'm still using 250gb SATA disks for my daily driver.
back then i was using 80gb PATA disks.
Original XP not good for large disks SP3 is the recommended not integral go vanilla as in original.
Your using SATA? THAT mobo only does IDE/PATA what card are you using for that? or is it a bridge adapter on the disks\drives?
Integral is bad for you there are many shitifications of XP out there ask me I’ll message you a link to a special real XP SP3 in DVD iso on archive.
Its special because it has the latest drivers including text mode sata support and has 2,700 views without complaints.

I would take a look at that link if you could send it. I do also have an old XP install disc but i haven't tried it yet as all the drives i have are too big for a non service pack edition. I do belive i have an old 80gb laptop SATA drive floating around somewhere so i could try that . I'm sure that OS works as I've used it many times on other PC's. I do have an XP DVD too although I have no idea where i downloaded it.

dwschorfhaar@gmail.c wrote on 2026-11-10, 15:59:

zapbuzz wrote on 2026-11-10, 13:02:

your disks were the size used by servers in that motherboards day. I'm still using 250gb SATA disks for my daily driver. back th […]
Show full quote

your disks were the size used by servers in that motherboards day.
I'm still using 250gb SATA disks for my daily driver.
back then i was using 80gb PATA disks.
Original XP not good for large disks SP3 is the recommended not integral go vanilla as in original.
Your using SATA? THAT mobo only does IDE/PATA what card are you using for that? or is it a bridge adapter on the disks\drives?
Integral is bad for you there are many shitifications of XP out there ask me I’ll message you a link to a special real XP SP3 in DVD iso on archive.
Its special because it has the latest drivers including text mode sata support and has 2,700 views without complaints.

I would take a look at that link if you could send it. I do also have an old XP install disc but i haven't tried it yet as all the drives i have are too big for a non service pack edition. I do belive i have an old 80gb laptop SATA drive floating around somewhere so i could try that . I'm sure that OS works as I've used it many times on other PC's. I do have an XP DVD too although I have no idea where i downloaded it.

done.
I have run windows 98SE with a 2TB SATA disk before but with unofficial patches to handle the geometry it wasn't very pleasant for one thing the bogus out of space warning and some legacy software installers had a similar bug saying not enough space to install 🤣.
Your mention of an 80GB disk may be wise choice as windows 98 starts to corrupt the disk once it reaches the 120gb geometry boundary which can happen at random at any time.
There is an unofficial patch for that bug by the late Rudolph Lowe.

dwschorfhaar@gmail.c wrote on 2026-11-10, 15:36:

StarTech 40-Pin IDE to 2.5in SATA HDD/SSD/ODD Converter, TAA (IDE2SAT2)
I'm using that to connect the sata drives to the motherboard. it works fine with windows 98 and it was also able to boot freedos. the integral xp does have SP3 intergrated. I let it make its own partition on both drives i tried. the installation seemed to go fine everytime i installed it. i get to the post screen then it will say boot from cd? then no bootable cd found so it looks for the hard drive. it finds it and pops up the error loading operating sysem message. I updated the motherboards bios to 1.32a. i also applied the tualatin/large drive patch to it. when i boot into the bios it sees the entire drive (even the 1TB one).

Integral does its own thing you are wiser if you do it manually because if you dual boot you need to manually partition and format separate partitions to install 98 and xp - 98 first then xp second. I like your startech adapter they are not those cheap ones it should serve you well.

zapbuzz wrote on 2026-11-10, 17:40:

dwschorfhaar@gmail.c wrote on 2026-11-10, 15:36:

StarTech 40-Pin IDE to 2.5in SATA HDD/SSD/ODD Converter, TAA (IDE2SAT2)
I'm using that to connect the sata drives to the motherboard. it works fine with windows 98 and it was also able to boot freedos. the integral xp does have SP3 intergrated. I let it make its own partition on both drives i tried. the installation seemed to go fine everytime i installed it. i get to the post screen then it will say boot from cd? then no bootable cd found so it looks for the hard drive. it finds it and pops up the error loading operating sysem message. I updated the motherboards bios to 1.32a. i also applied the tualatin/large drive patch to it. when i boot into the bios it sees the entire drive (even the 1TB one).

Integral does its own thing you are wiser if you do it manually because if you dual boot you need to manually partition and format separate partitions to install 98 and xp - 98 first then xp second. I like your startech adapter they are not those cheap ones it should serve you well.

i tried at first pre partitioning with gparted and got the error so i tried letting xp make it's own partition to see if that helped. it did not. unless someone can come up with something else the only thing i can think of it the install media is bad but i have a cd version i tried and a dvd version. same error with each one. the final plan is to install 98 on one hard drive and windows 2000 and xp on a second hard drive and a grub bootloader to handle the boot to the second drive

Thank you for the link zapbuzz. I'm downloading it now. It's larger than the DVD version I already have which makes me happy. It's obviously not the same one and I like internet archive! i download a lot of my retro things from there. I'll burn that DVD this week and test it out and see if it works any better. Wish me luck.

dwschorfhaar@gmail.c wrote on 2026-11-10, 19:04:

Thank you for the link zapbuzz. I'm downloading it now. It's larger than the DVD version I already have which makes me happy. It's obviously not the same one and I like internet archive! i download a lot of my retro things from there. I'll burn that DVD this week and test it out and see if it works any better. Wish me luck.

sure good luck 😀

Just be patient with its driver installer it takes time and don't delete that database from your PC until you are sure your hardware configuration is final or you'll need to dig up
your own drivers.

zapbuzz wrote on Yesterday, 04:19:

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dwschorfhaar@gmail.c wrote on 2026-11-10, 19:04:

Thank you for the link zapbuzz. I'm downloading it now. It's larger than the DVD version I already have which makes me happy. It's obviously not the same one and I like internet archive! i download a lot of my retro things from there. I'll burn that DVD this week and test it out and see if it works any better. Wish me luck.

sure good luck 😀

Just be patient with its driver installer it takes time and don't delete that database from your PC until you are sure your hardware configuration is final or you'll need to dig up
your own drivers.

Downloaded the version you suggested and i still get the same error. I also get that error with Windows 2000. I tried installing windows 7 and it works fine so i can boot windows 98, windows 7 and free dos just not xp or 2000. I tried 2000 on a native IDE drive and I still got the error so it's not the SATA to IDE adapter.