Re: Windows NT Dual Booting with Win98
From: Michael Rickard (michael.rickard@bristol.ac.uk)Date: 07/02/02
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From: michael.rickard@bristol.ac.uk (Michael Rickard) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:06:19 GMT
In article <YEsQ8.16540$Hj3.54547@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>, jay@indo.com.au
says...
>
>Hi There everyone, I need some help on the windows NT boot.ini file and any
>other files that are involved with dual booting the following system:
>
>Disk0 on IDE0 is Windows NT 4.0 Workstation using NTFS filesystem on the
>first and only partition on this drive.
>
>Disk1 on IDE0 is Windows 98 Second Edition using FAT32 filesystem on the
>first and only partition on this drive.
>
>Can some one tell me what I should put in my boot.ini file on the Windows NT
>drive to allow me to dual boot Windows 98 & Windows NT.
>
If you don't want to read the MS docs on this then you can use Gilles Vollant's
bootpart to modify your boot.ini file
see http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
however, although this will allow you to start loading win98, it will rapidly
fail. The drive number is hard-coded into the boot sector of the fat32
partition as 0x80 which is wrong if it's disk 1. (should be 0x81) The easiest
way to fix this is with the ranish partition manager
see: http://www.ranish.com/part/
this will spot the problem and offer to fix it for you.
This is all you need to do to enable dual booting between win98 and NT4 using
the NT boot manager
There is no need to have a fat16 partition to get the dual boot to
work.
You won't be able to read or write the partitions of one operating system from
the other. If read access is sufficient then there is free software to do this
from http://www.sysinternals.com
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