On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:11:53 -0500, John Sproule <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I'm probably just asking to make things more difficult instead of easier,
>but I was wondering if there was a way to set up a dual boot sytem with
>WinXP and Win98 so WinXP ends up on the C: Drive and Win98 ends up on
>anything something else.
>
>I keep ending up with Win98 on the C: drive.  If you are working in WinXP,
>some programs still will assume that C: is the default operating system
>drive, and if you aren't paying attention, you'll end up with files being
>written to the Win98 partition.
>
>Win98 can't see the NTFS partition, so there wouldn't be a problem with
>Win98 writing to the WinXP partition (assuming it was formatted as NTFS).
>I'm guessing that this is also the problem that I'm up against, since Win98
>can't see the NTFS partition, it will always assume that the C: letter
>assignment is available and use it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John Sproule
>
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All you need to do is install Win98 on the D: partition, If you do not get an
option on the install you could always try rearranging the primary partition to
be the D: drive and then try installing. The install program should be looking
for the active partition rathert than the first one it finds. Hope this helps.

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