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Dual boot - W2K and W98SE

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MalcolmW

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I've got a W2K box, and I need to install W98SE as well, for gaming purposes.
I'm uncertain as the best approach. Currently I have one NTFS drive, so if I put W98SE on that drive I'd be looking at a partition and changing the format of the partition to FAT32.
The other alternative is to use another physical drive, format it to FAT32, and install W98SE on that. I'm not sure how I could get a dual boot working with that though.
Which approach would work better?

Finally, I "concerned" about installing W98SE after W2K, as this really a backwards way to do this. How "concerned" should I be?

Thanks for your thoughts. Malcolm
wynden@telus.net
November is "be kind to dogs and programmers" month. Or is that "dogs or programmers"?
 
I will let you figure out what is the best way for you to do this. Before you do anything I would try running your games on win2k. I am running win2k and have not found a game yet that will not run on it!!! Actually I heard that nascar2 or 3 will not run.
As far as installing 98 after win2k, it shouldn't matter because they are in different directories, partitions etc...
If you just HAVE to install 98se I would make a new fat32 partition on your drive and insatll there. Make it big enough to store your games (obviously). I would also buy another hard drive and make it ntfs (and make it dynamic) and create 4 or 5 volumes- 1 for programs, 1 for downloads etc...
 
Actually the game is for my kids - Lego Chess. Some graphics, but nothing like Quake. The config can't find my video card, so as a result, the software won't run. Actually it will run at low resolution (120 x 320) and minimal features turned on - although I running 300 mH with 128 RAM. Amazing how much you need that video card.

Windows 2000 has no problems using my video card though - it is just that Lego Chess when installed does not use the Windows configured video card. Mildly frustrating.
The software is of course Win95/98 stuff. I am presuming that under Win98, Lego chess will be able to find my video card (an old 8 meg Riva TNT).
Thanks for the input, think I make a FAT32 partition on my existing NTFS drive, and stick Win98 on there, and make it my boot sector for both Windows. Prob have to reinstall Win2K, but I might be able to trick it (famous last words...)




Malcolm
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