Full Guide to OS Dual Booting
Last
Updated on November 08, 2000 by Thomas
McGuire - Page 2/9
Setup
- Partitioning
Before
you install Windows 98/Me you will want to re-partition your
hard drive. Insert the Startup/Boot
disk &
reboot your Computer – setting your BIOS to boot from the
floppy drive first. Once this disk has been booted from (To
a Command prompt) type in fdisk
& hit Enter.
You’ll
be greeted with a screen as shown below (After selecting Yes
to enable Large disk support).
The
first thing to do is to Delete your existing
partition(s) – Option 3. Once these have been
deleted you can re-partition your hard drive as you see fit.
You’ll want at least 2 partitions created – 1 for
each Operating system. It may also be worthwhile creating a
third partition for other uses. Personally I’d recommend
using a second hard drive for the purposes of sharing
application/game installation, although, this really is up
to you.
I’d
recommend giving the Primary partition the greater
proportion of space available. The reasoning for this being
that Windows 98/Me will be installed into this partition –
These particular Operating systems only support FAT32 file
system at the most, they cannot access NTFS
partitions. As a result any shared program installations
between Windows 98/Me & 2000 will have to go into the
FAT32 partition.
Once
you have created your Primary partition, make an Extended
DOS Partition, this is where Windows 2000 will be
installed onto. Unless you are going to create another
partition you should use the remainder of the free space for
this partition.
Exit
& Reboot your system for the changes to take
effect (Again, booting up with the Startup Disk, enable
CD ROM support & insert your Windows 98/Me CD).
OS
Installation – Windows 98/Me
This
is the easy part, well the-should-be-easy-part. (In
case you missed what I said before – After partitioning,
boot up using the Windows 98/Me Startup Disk, enable
CD ROM support & insert your Windows 98/Me CD) Access
the CD\DVD drive from the DOS prompt, e.g. type E:\
& hit Enter. Next type in setup.exe &
hit Enter.
From
here on just perform a standard installation of Windows
98/Me to your C:\ drive (Do not select any other
partition as it will most likely can problems later on). You
can change the installation folder (Default of \WINDOWS)
if needed although I don’t recommend it, nor would I
bother changing it myself.
Once
Windows 98/Me has finally installed you can install Windows
2000. You shouldn’t customize/install/do anything else
until Windows 2000 has been installed (I’ll go into Why
later).
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