I have two questions I hope someone can answer. First, I reformatted my hard drive last night and restored it to it’s factory new condition, using my Compaq rescue CD. (I love that thing). Anyhoo, here are my questions. I’m running NT 4.0 if that makes any difference.
How can I make this a duel boot system? I want to be able to choose between NT or 98. Someone told me that you just need to load NT, then attempt to load 98. Somewhere along the line you are given the option to make your system duel boot. Any ideas?
Second question: I can’t try the above experiment because I can’t get into DOS to try running setup for Win98. I can get a DOS Window, but there is no “exit to DOS” option. Is there a keyboard way (during startup) that I can do this?
Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance, fellow geeks. Don’t let me down!
I have never tried installing Windows 98 on top of NT. But, doing it the other way, it has worked fine. Install Windows 98/95 and then install Windows NT, and it gives you the chance to do dual boot.
It depends on how your drive is set up. If you currently have an NTFS partition, you will need to either start over and install on a FAT (aka FAT16) partition, or get a copy of Partition Magic and create a second logical drive. Since your copy of NT is in the form of a rescue CD, you may not have the option to choose a FAT partition on setup. Here is an excellent place to start. Keep in mind that a FAT partition is limited to 2 gigs.
Ok, I’ve just done this with 2000 and 95, so I’m fresh!
Install NT. Make a rescue disk so you can recover it later. Install 98 on another partition. 98 will automatically start up after it’s loaded.
Restart the computer with the NT disk in it and let setup start. Choose the “Recover NT install” choice when it tells you it’s located another install of NT.
You can choose “recover all” or recover MBR I think. Try to use the recovery disk the first time, but it didn’t work in my situation. I chose “Recover all” and let it do it’s thing.
