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Dual boot win98se/win 2000

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First post, by rostomzerrougui

Posted on 2023-06-10, 23:29

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I want to dual boot on my armada e500 but i have already installed win2k so if i install win98 it will not get dualboot.
How should i do
Ps: i have plop bootmanager on a flopy disk i dont know if i can use it as a botmgr and install win98 without reinstalling win2k!

Reply 1 of 3, by chinny22

Posted on 2023-06-12, 10:05

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Does the 2k install have anything special that you can't reinstall?
If not I'd just start again and get your partitions all set up correctly from the beginning.

You can mess round with partition software and boot managers but so much more can go wrong.

Reply 2 of 3, by Disruptor

Posted on 2023-06-12, 10:10

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It's not that difficult:
After installing Win9x you need to dump the boot sector of your Win9x partition to a file, copy it on the NT start partition, and add it to BOOT.INI

Reply 3 of 3, by RandomStranger

Posted on 2023-06-12, 10:23

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For these multi-boot project I usually use XFDISK. You can find tutorials on youtube. What I like about it is that the OS-es don't see each others drives (except NT based ones like W2k, but you can just remove the drive letter for the W98SE partition).

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