Will this work ??

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raksrules

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I have a machine with the following config:

Intel 845 GSLV Motherboard
80GB Samsung HDD
256 MB RAM
Samsung DVD Writer
On board graphics

On this machine i have four partitions (C,D,E,F) and D: has windows XP installed on it which i primarily use. On C: I had installed Windows 98 but after some issue i had to format C: resulting in Win98 being removed from my machine. But still at the startup it shows me both Windows XP and 98 and selecting 98 makes the PC go to a dead end (obviously). But this is not my problem. I saw the contents of boot.ini from msconfig and saw two OSes listed one XP as
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
and for another it is written as C:\"Microsoft Windows" with latter one referring to Windows 98.

Now the problem is that i have one more very old machine with 20GB HDD But the machine is not working any more. That HDD has Windows 98 installed on it is C: and D: of that HDD is almost empty. Now my question is that if i replace all the contents of my 80GB hdd one's C: (after taking a backup) with the contents of the C: from the 20GB HDD then will i be able to boot into Windows 98 on my newer machine. So effectively i will be now having Win 98 on C: and XP on D:

PS: This may be a noob question
 
nope , just replacing the hard disc contents alone will not install an OS. ( I'm not sure :ashamed: ) but I think some boot sector stuff will also have to be written

PS: why not boot off the old HDD instead ?
 
I cannot have both the HDD in my single machine because i also need to have a floppy drive also. And after placing the floppy drive and both the hdd the setup is like i have a floppy drive sandwiched between two HDDs with absolutely no room available in between and all three of them touching each other. Moreover both the HDDs get hot after a couple of hours of operation. I dont want to take chances here.
 
I already have XP installed on D: and now i dont think it will allow me to install Win 98 on C:. And i dont want to remove my stable XP and then reinstall again else my all program setups and everything will go for a toss.

Is there any workaround for installing Windows 98 on a machine already having Windows XP ??
 
So how is it going now? Is this problem solved? I Hope someone will post here and tell us how we did it.. I also need answers for this problem.
 
rak007 said:
I already have XP installed on D: and now i dont think it will allow me to install Win 98 on C:. And i dont want to remove my stable XP and then reinstall again else my all program setups and everything will go for a toss.

Is there any workaround for installing Windows 98 on a machine already having Windows XP ??
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this is easy if ur mobo supports a selective boot device prompt

check by pressing f8(boot prompt on asus mobo , i check ur mobo manual) during booting.

a present day mobo should give u a prompt suggesting u which hard disk to boot from.

if ur mobo has it then yay!

remove ur present os hd from pc.
install 98 on other hd.

after complete install attach both hd's bak

now each time u boot , press f8 to select the hd to boot from, else it will got default hd from bios.

enjoy
 
hw abt fiddling wit the jumpers if u give a master for the XP partioned one u can boot into tht try changin to master for a 20gb i havnt tried this bt it mit work .. give it a try ,...:clap:
 
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