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I'm planning on partitioning my current Win98 harddrive and having both 98 and XP...

My friend has an XP Pro editon which I might be able to get cheap. But it's one of those upgrade things. Would it install on a blank partition? Or would I have to mess arround installing Windows 98 on it and upgrading?

Also... (sorry but I don't know much about this kind of computing) would I have to do anything special to set up a duel-boot kind of thing? Don't know if I'm using the correct terms here but I want to have both XP and 98... automatically boot to XP but be able to boot into 98 if I have to.

If I make my partition NTFS, would it be readable in 98? If not, do I get an obvious option to keep it as FAT32? (I mean do I get asked in setup which I want or do I have to look for the option a bit deeper. I don't want to miss it by accident.)

If I install XP, is there a way to transfer my 98 settings? Or will I have to do them again? Will I need to reinstall my programs and utilities? I mean, if their information is stored on the registry on the 98 partition, can I copy over my old registry?

Phew that's a lot. Any help really appreciated.Just how cheap is cheap? http://www.buysoftware.ws/pd_microsoft_windows.cfm
About £50 or maybe even for free, it depends. If he can't sell/give, I'd buy my own but I still need help with the above. Thanks for the advice though; I'll look around before buying.Also, I have Anthlon AMD processor. Does that matter?Dual booting informationhttp://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm  forget the media hype with ntfs...sitick with fat32...i have run win9x winxp home/pro with no poblems... and and  advantages like old hardware /software...+more.. Quote

I'm planning on partitioning my current Win98 harddrive and having both 98 and XP... My friend has an XP Pro editon ...But it's one of those upgrade things.

1.  Would it install on a blank partition? Or would I have to mess arround installing Windows 98 on it and upgrading?
2.  ...would I have to do anything special to set up a duel-boot kind of thing? Don't know if I'm using the correct terms here but I want to have both XP and 98... automatically boot to XP but be able to boot into 98 if I have to.
3.  If I make my partition NTFS, would it be readable in 98?
4.  If not, do I get an obvious option to keep it as FAT32? (I mean do I get asked in setup which I want or do I have to look for the option a bit deeper. I don't want to miss it by accident.)
5.  If I install XP, is there a way to transfer my 98 settings? Or will I have to do them again?
6.  Will I need to reinstall my programs and utilities?
7.  I mean, if their information is stored on the registry on the 98 partition, can I copy over my old registry?


I have triple boot:  Win2k, Win98SE, WinXP-Pro.  All are FAT32.  Win2k is "master" which sees all partitions, Win98 cannot "see" Win2k or WinXP, WinXP cannot "see" Win2k or Win98.  All 3 bootable partitions share 3 other partitions:  DATA, DOWNLOADS, JUNK(swap files, temp files, cookies).  Bootable partitions must start within the 1024 cylinder BOUNDARY, so they need not be very large, Mine are 4GB, 2GB, 5GB, for Win2k, Win98, WinXP.

1.  Since the WinXP version you have is an upgrade, you can copy the existing Win98 partition to the new WinXP partition and then do the upgrade.  Upgrades will not install on blank partition.
2.  Yes.  I recommend PartitionMagic/BootMagic...not required...but makes it a lot easier.
3.  No.
4.  Partition Magic allows copying/resizing of partitions without loss of data.
5.  Upgrading will keep all Win98 settings.
6.  No, not if you perform upgrade.  Some utilities might have to be reinstalled.  You'll know when you try to run them.
7.  Registry configurations are different.
Hang on a minute what happened to the all inspirng winxp...why is you mate going BACKWARDS in time win98? wait for the answer  its going to be  a good un...well, not to barge in on the issues or anything, but you can have your xp partition ntfs, while your win 98 partition is FAT 32, then you have the best of both worlds, the stability for xp, and a partition that nwill work for 98, and my shared partition is fat 32 for compatibility with both.
to each his own though.

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Hang on a minute what happened to the all inspirng winxp<all can do but dont system>...why is you mate going backwards in time win98? wait for the answer  its going to be  a good un...


If you mean why doesn't my friend want his XP anymore? Well, he has two main computers. One is an Atari (seriously) and his PC isn't that much BETTER. Need I say anymore? Whether you choose to format to FAT32 or to NTFS is a matter of drive size. FAT32 is NOT supported on large drives. So quoting small drives and FAT32 is acceptable only with new system usingh new software and new hardware using NTFS is preferable to using FAT32.

So what size of drive are you using?

My 80Gb drive has four drive partitions all formatted to NTFS, C: = 8192Mb , D: = 8192Mb , E: = 3072Mb and F: is the rest of the drive.

The drive utilities run better on NTFS and if you are going to use XP PROFESSIONAL and want to use all of the features which come with XP Pro you'll need to format to NTFS anyway.

See: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm & http://www.ntfs.comMy main harddrive is 40gb. I was thinking of partitioning off a small ammout (perhaps 4 gb?) for the XP install... as the rest of the drive has all my programs and stuff installed already. I want to keep my main OS and my programs seperate so I'm less likely to lose them incase of a tragedy.


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