Hi all, I'm new to this site, though it looks to be great and an excellent source of information ~~
Anyway, I had installed windows 98 se a week or two ago in order to play my old DOS games (Daggerfall! emulation was too slow performance wise), and just today I've been trying to reinstall XP on a seperate partition. I used partitionmagic to reduce the size of the win98 partition to 9gb, leaving 105 for XP, then I created a new partition with this free space using the NTFS filesystem. Everything seemed to be going great, however when I went to install XP, the partition that I had created was labeled something like "Unknown", and setup woudln't let me install to it. Instead, it recommended that I delete the partition, and choose the subsequent free space it would make available, which would then be acceptably repartitioned by the windows installer....
I went ahead and did all that, and again , everything seemed to be going ok. The rest of the install completed without issue, and afterwards, I was presented with the Windows boot screen menu. I selected Windows98 first, and it booted up and functioned just as it did before (with less space!). Next, trying Windows XP, it did boot up fine, however checking in Windows Explorer, I noticed that my C:\ drive from the windows98 fat32 partition was displaying, and also I now had two floppy drives (one for each partition..)!
Sorry for the lengthy explanation of my problem, but does anyone know what might be happening or possibly offer me some advice on how to fix this?
One thing is, since I've very recently reformatted the entire drive, I have little of importance on either partition, so I would be open to the idea of completely reformatting and setting up the Dual OS's correctly... However I'm not so sure I trust myself to do so after what happened!
If nobody can help me out in fixing the files from my win98 partition from showing up in my winxp partition, then if I could be told how to properly set up a dual boot scenario using these two OS's from scratch using an empty formatted hard drive, that would be great!!
Thanks a lot! ~
-Marsupial
Anyway, I had installed windows 98 se a week or two ago in order to play my old DOS games (Daggerfall! emulation was too slow performance wise), and just today I've been trying to reinstall XP on a seperate partition. I used partitionmagic to reduce the size of the win98 partition to 9gb, leaving 105 for XP, then I created a new partition with this free space using the NTFS filesystem. Everything seemed to be going great, however when I went to install XP, the partition that I had created was labeled something like "Unknown", and setup woudln't let me install to it. Instead, it recommended that I delete the partition, and choose the subsequent free space it would make available, which would then be acceptably repartitioned by the windows installer....
I went ahead and did all that, and again , everything seemed to be going ok. The rest of the install completed without issue, and afterwards, I was presented with the Windows boot screen menu. I selected Windows98 first, and it booted up and functioned just as it did before (with less space!). Next, trying Windows XP, it did boot up fine, however checking in Windows Explorer, I noticed that my C:\ drive from the windows98 fat32 partition was displaying, and also I now had two floppy drives (one for each partition..)!
Sorry for the lengthy explanation of my problem, but does anyone know what might be happening or possibly offer me some advice on how to fix this?
One thing is, since I've very recently reformatted the entire drive, I have little of importance on either partition, so I would be open to the idea of completely reformatting and setting up the Dual OS's correctly... However I'm not so sure I trust myself to do so after what happened!
If nobody can help me out in fixing the files from my win98 partition from showing up in my winxp partition, then if I could be told how to properly set up a dual boot scenario using these two OS's from scratch using an empty formatted hard drive, that would be great!!
Thanks a lot! ~
-Marsupial