Adding Win 98 to XP

[marshedg]

Hi,

I have tried to follow the previous thread from Hypro relating to Adding Win98/ME to XP and I seems to have got a bit lost down the line.
Here's what i did and what happened.
Got 2 Hard drives, Win XP on C: Drive 1 there are 4 partitions on that drive.
Installed Win 98 on Drive 2 which has 2 partitions which was set to Master after removing Win XP Drive, after installation which was fine changed drives back so Win XP was back as Drive 1 C:\Windows and Win 98 is on Drive 2 in D:\Windows.

Both OS seem to work fine prior to reconnecting drive 2 Win98 as slave, Win XP is OK and boots from third party bootuse and XPBoot manager.
If I try and boot Win 98 from Boot Manager I get NO System Disk Found.

Also in Boot.ini in Win XP msconfig the entry is:-

"C:\=(Windows 98)"
Win XP is "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect"
default = C:\

I think I can see the error in C: Windows but not sure how to change. or XP is incorrect and should be drive (1)
The other problem also I had 2 previous Win 98 installations on Drive 1 in f: and H: which I have deleted and if I boot from BootUse it finds all previous installations and get Can't fine WIN.com error, how can I get rid of this previous installations and repair NEW installation.
Presume they are Autoexec.bat files that need editing or deleting.

Regards John M

[Alfie]

Win98 should be master drive.
An easier approach is to set Win98 disk as master,XP as slave,boot from XP cd and after it does it's thing,you'll come to the screen of repair or install,click on install,XP will then offer the option to reinstall or repair an existing copy,click on repair.
After the repair is done,you should have dual boot.

[marshedg]

Hi Alfie,

I am still having problems with this dual boot have read your article and this is where I am up to if you can suggest where I am going wrong.

1/ Changed XP drive to slave so Win 98 is Master.
2/On booting to CD first window. The following options.
a/To set up windows press Enter.
b/To repair Win XP installation Recovery Console press R.
c/Quit.
3/Selected R, 1. Windows D:\ was found selected 1.
that is as far as it went.
tried the Fixboot option as in Hypro article.
On reboot after setting Win 98 Drive back as first boot I had the same problem as you "NTLDR" not found.
4/ Went back into XP setup from CD and selected Install, Enter.
next window was list of partitions and drives.
Drive "0" Win 98
Drive "1" Win XP
5/Selected Drive "1" partition D: which was XP, it then told me I had a previous installation and it would overwrite previous installation and all data would be lost. So Exited this avenue.
6/If I selected Drive "0" partition C: which was 98 it told me I already had a previos version and not to continue and a MS link to dual booting. So I exited from that avenue as well.
I have left Win 98 HD as Master and Win XP as slave and Bootmanager will still start XP fine but 98 still finds previous entries of a Win 98 system that I deleted can I not use this data but edit so it points to Win 98 on C:\Windows.Is it in an "Autoexec" file.
BootUse 98 tells me NTLDR missing.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Regards John M