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Adding 2nd H/D Question(s)
I just installed Win2000 on my old Win98SE machine.
Using Win98 floppy to boot the machine, then FIDSK to partition and format(fat36) your HDs anyway you want, then install Win2000, at the very begining of the installation, Win2000 will ask you whether you want to repartition or to convert Fat36 to NTFS, and it will be done in a few seconds. After you have installed Win2000, it'll only let you convert between Fat36 and NTFS, but you'll lose all the data, and you can not repartition. At this point, you have to use PM. In my experience, I strongly against load multi-OS on same machine, because eventually someday sometime you will forget and clobber other OS's territory and will cause a tons of problems. Machine & HD are cheap, I tell my family members to have your own machine for your own OS. "SpeeDTraP" ... I'm currently running a Biostar M7NCD Pro with an Athlon XP2500 (unlocked), a 400W PS, and a 40G WD hard drive partitioned into 4 - 9.7G sections with Win98 installed ... I've ordered an 80G WD H/D with 8 MB buffer to add to the system ... I intend to partition the new H/D into 4 sections and install W2K Pro and Win XP Pro on two of the partitions with the new H/D setup as "master" and the old H/D setup as "slave" ... my questions a 1. Does W2K Pro or XP Pro have a utility like Fdisk to partition the new drive or will I need a program like PM to do that ? 2. If I use the Win98 boot disk and Fdisk to partition the new drive will 2K and XP install on a FAT32 partition ? 3. Will installing either 2K or XP first facilitate installation of the other OS ? 4. If I understand this correctly, this kind setup will yeild drive designators such that the first partition on the master drive will be "C" and the first partition of the slave will be "D" , correct ? If so, how will the subsequent partitions of each drive be designated ? Thanks in advance for any help . |
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