First post, by Tetrium
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To make a long story short (and because it being past 4:30am 😜 ), I'm planning on building several rigs with 9x. I personally favor ME but I see that 98SE has some good flexibility (and I want to try it out a bit more).
Now my plan is to create a 98SE&ME dualboot setup, preferably with both windows on the same partition (in case I want to clone the install to other harddrives instead of having to tweak both windows for every single dual install I do).
I want ME because I've had it for like 10 years and don't want to go without and I want 98SE so I have an alternative when some games won't work in ME without a lot of hassle.
Having 2 OS'es on 1 machine will also mean I won't have to swap systems around as much when I have another lan-party. It will have greater flexibility what games are concerned.
I think I only have the oem version of 98SE but for ME I own an oem, an upgrade (which I probably won't be using) and this other weird version (not an oem nor retail, it's a system builder version with the product key already on the cd).
It's been a long time since I tried a dual boot but iirc it's about installing the older windows first and then starting setup of the newer windows from within the older windows. I figure the newer windows won't install if it's an oem.
I don't remember exactly how I setup the thing but iirc I had one windows in a folder named "WIN98" and the second in "WINME" instead of the default "WINDOWS" directory. Not sure if it'll cause serious problems that way.
The other part of the plan is:Can I clone these installs to other harddrives?
I have virtually no experience with cloning (except for putting harddrives from one system into another system and then booting from it, it finds the new drivers, reboots a couple times etc etc).
I'm kinda hoping this can be done by fdisking+formatting the new harddrive, making it bootable with DOS or something and then simply copying the whole content of the other harddrive to the new one from some master system (probably using XP).
Whatever way I'm going to use for cloning, it's gotta be able to be done on harddrives with different sizes and it has to be not too complicated or have too many limitations. I'll need a flexible way to copy the whole dualboot install to a new harddrive, boot from it in the new machine and let it install the new standard windows drivers if applicable.
So in short, I have a plan but also a whole bunch of potential and very diverse problems.
Could anyone push me in the right direction?