XP Dual Boot

[Gayathri]

Hi ,

i am having dual os in my system i had coverted fat32 also in to ntfs. now
98 is not booting up. how to resolve this, i need dual os back.
can i use windows native tools for this. or i have to use third party tools.

thnx in advance

Gayathri

[Gerry Cornell]

Windows 98 will not run on an NTFS formatted disk / partition. Did you =
partition your hard drive (s)?

HOW TO: Create a Multiple-Boot System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;306559


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Hope this helps.

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[Josh Collins]

It sounds like you are going to have to start all over. Once you go to NTFS,
you can't go back without reformatting.

As a safe rule, I would never use NTFS on the same drive that you are using
windows 98 on. Keep it all Fat32 so you can read all the directories in
Explorer. That is, you can't read a NTFS directory if you are in a Fat32
partition.


"Gayathri" > wrote in message
...
> Hi ,
>
> i am having dual os in my system i had coverted fat32 also in to ntfs. now
> 98 is not booting up. how to resolve this, i need dual os back.
> can i use windows native tools for this. or i have to use third party
tools.
>
> thnx in advance
>
> Gayathri
>
>
>

[johnf]

Do you have your '98 drive/partition set to Active?

johnf

> Hi ,
>
> i am having dual os in my system i had coverted fat32 also in to
> ntfs. now 98 is not booting up. how to resolve this, i need dual os
> back.
> can i use windows native tools for this. or i have to use third party
> tools.
>
> thnx in advance
>
> Gayathri

[Ken Blake]

In , Gayathri wrote:

> i am having dual os in my system i had coverted fat32 also in
to
> ntfs. now 98 is not booting up.


Windows 98 can *not* see an NTFS drive.



> how to resolve this, i need dual os
> back.
> can i use windows native tools for this. or i have to use third
party
> tools.


There is no native Windows tool to convert from NTFS to FAT32.
You need a third-party utility such as Partition Magic.

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Ken Blake
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