NTFS conversion

[pra73]

I have Win2k Adv. Ser. on my prim partition. The secondary partition is blank. The primary partition is NTFS. When I try to install 98 on my second partition, it wont let me because of the prim ntfs partition. How can I work around this problem?

[ctaylor]

This is a tricky one. My understanding of Win 98 is that it MUST be on the primary partition to boot.

My best guess is to boot to Win98 from a floppy, go to your second partition and then run

d:\> cd\windows
d:\windows> windows

and try to initialize that way. I expect that if you try and move the partitions with Partition Magic and make your present D: drive become your active partition you will encounter problems with the MBR (master boot record).

Whenever I have had a multi-boot system I always kept my primary partition as a FAT16 format and installed Win9X there. NT/Win2K was always installed in non-primary partitions. In the future I would recommend that your primary partition be FAT 16 so all O/S's can read it and store whatever boot loaders are needed there.

My understanding is that only NT, Win2k, and Linux can read an NTFS file system.

[BBA]

Windows 98 does not have to be on the primary partition of the first drive.
First, make a repair disk for W2K from the BACKUP application in system tools.

Make the second partition into FAT32, use disk administrator to mark it as the active partition. Now you will be able to boot to it and load Win98.

Then rerun W2K setup to repair the installation startup files ( remake the primary partition active and create the Boot.ini with Win98 bootloader data in it ) You need the ERD for this.

[starcraft_azzkikr]

ctaylor not only those but unix and macintosh can also it's like macintosh is hack proof and a good hacking machine too. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

SA