HELP!! Dual-boot blues!!
I am creating a dual-boot system so I can practice for the OS exam. I have a 20 GB HD that will consist of four 5 GB partitions, one for each OS; Win '98, WinNT, Win2K, and WinXP. I have already installed Win '98 and set it to active. However, when I boot to the WinNT CD, I receive a message stating that it could not be installed. I tried running the CD from Win '98 and got the following error message:
Setup was unable to install Windows NT Boot Loader.
Insure that your C: drive is formatted and that the drive is not damaged.
Setup cannot continue. Press ENTER to exit.
What am I doing wrong? The hard drive is fine, I installed Win '98 without any problems.
Setup was unable to install Windows NT Boot Loader.
Insure that your C: drive is formatted and that the drive is not damaged.
Setup cannot continue. Press ENTER to exit.
What am I doing wrong? The hard drive is fine, I installed Win '98 without any problems.
Comments
Should I have formatted the Win '98 partition to FAT-16?
- Reinstall Windows 98 (on the FAT16)
- Install Windows NT 4 on another partition (create, and format it NTFS, during NT Setup)
Should work perfectly...
In your multi-boot configuration the C: disk cannot be FAT32. Since Windows NT cannot access it, and it should be able to access it for the windows nt startup files. Windows NT will boot Windows 98... When you install Windows NT 4 it will take the boot sector created by Windows 98 and put it in a file bootsect.dos, which is referred to in the boot.ini file (this file will be loaded when you choose Windows 98 from the startup options in the boot menu).
When you install Windows 2000 and XP, do not upgrade the NTFS version of the partition where NT 4 resides from 4 to 5, unless you installed NT 4 SP 3... or was it SP 5, yes I think so, but anyway the latest service pack will do
And just to add, you can make the partition that 2000 or XP resides NTFS4 or 5 (in fact you should so you can get a feel for the compression & encryption abilities).
I had an XP machine on my bench yesterday that didn't recognise the mouse and it was the USB controller with a screwed driver that caused it.
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