Here are the steps to install Win 98 AFTER installing Win XP
R. C. White
Your method ought to work - I haven't tried it - but it's entirely
unnecessary!
Just boot from the Win98 CD-ROM and install Win98 on any FAT (16 or 32)
volume other than the one where WinNT/2K/XP is. Then boot from the WinXP
CD-ROM and run either Setup's Repair procedure or the Recovery Console to
restore the startup environment. Either Setup or the RC will create
C:\bootsect.dos from the contents of the Win98 boot sector, and will revise
C:\boot.ini to include the C:\="Microsoft Windows 98" line. (This line
always say C:\, even when Win98 is on E:, because it is pointing to
C:\io.sys and C:\msdos.sys, which tell it where the rest of Win98 is.)
RC
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"Klaus Budinegara" <klaus...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> * REVISED *
>
> 1. Get template file
>
> You need to copy the file "BOOTSECT.DOS" (attached) to c:\. You need this
> file AS A TEMPLATE ONLY (any file with length of 512 bytes will do) to
> create your own BOOTSECT.DOS in step 4.
>
>
> 2. Edit the hidden text file "BOOT.INI" in c:\ to add Windows 98 menu item
> (C:\="Microsoft Windows 98") on the
> last line, so your "BOOT.INI" looks something like this:
>
> -----
> [Boot Loader]
> timeout=5
> Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
> [Operating Systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
> Professional" /fastdetect
> C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
> -----
>
> And also, it's likely you don't need to change c: drive reference in the
> BOOT.INI even though you install Windows 98 in different drive than c:
(mine
> is in e: drive, and XP in d:). I haven't investigated this thoroughly with
> any possible configuration though.
>
>
> 3. Install Windows 98
>
> Install Windows 98 in different partition than XP partition.
>
>
> 4. Create BOOTSECT.DOS file
>
> The Windows 98 installation process will overwrite the XP boot sector
> with DOS/Win 9x boot sector, so after installing Windows 98, it seems that
> your XP is 'disappear'. Don't worry it's not. Now this is the time to copy
> your Window 98's boot sector to BOOTSECT.DOS. Assuming you already inside
> Windows 98 by now:
> a. open DOS box
> b. go to c:\
> c. type: "debug bootsect.dos"
> d. type "l 100 2 0 1" <enter> (the first character is a letter "L" not a
> number "1")
> e. type "w" <enter>
> f. type "q" <enter>
>
> So on your screen it would look like this:
>
> -----
>
> C:\>debug bootsect.dos
> -l 100 2 0 1
> -w
> Writing 00200 bytes
> -q
>
> -----
>
>
> 5. Write XP's boot sector back.
>
> Boot your computer using Windows XP CD. Choose the repair option /
recovery
> console. In recovery console type command "fixboot c:", then type "exit"
to
> reboot. After reboot, your computer will be able to dual boot between
> Windows XP and Windows 98.
Klaus Budinegara
Exactly which RC command to create bootsect.dos you're talking about? And if
you mean was to reinstall XP after you install win 98, everyone know that
process will you give dual boot :) The purpose of my post is to inform
people that what you need for dual boot AFTER XP is installed, is a small
0.5 kb bootsect.dos, not reinstall the XP again.
Klaus
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Tom
neither of the procedures appears when booting??
"R. C. White" <RCW...@msn.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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R. C. White
I've been trying to find the answer to your (our!) question. I still
haven't learned which part of WinNT/2K/XP Setup detects the Win9x-style boot
sector and creates bootsect.dos to preserve it for dual-booting. More to
the point, I haven't found which part of Recovery Console does this. The
info must be somewhere in these thick books I'm searching, but I haven't
located it yet. :>(
Which part of WinXP Setup reads the boot sector and recognizes that
dual-boot is possible? Is there a similar function in Recovery Console?
Which RC command performs that function?
The Recovery Console has several commands, including bootcfg, which rewrites
boot.ini. The documentation I've found does not say, though, that it
detects the Win9x boot sector and, if necessary, recreates bootsect.dos. Do
you know if it does? Or if another RC command performs this function? If
not, then wouldn't it be necessary to at least partially reinstall WinXP.
Simply copying a new bootsect.dos would not rewrite boot.ini, and
bootsect.dos would just sit there ignored, wouldn't it?
RC
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