How do I add a 2nd OS to the XP Boot Menu

[shadowbladex]

???? How can I do this ?????

Ok here's the situation. First thing I did was partition the drive, One 8GB Primary and one 2GB Extended. THe 8Gb is NTFS and the 2GB is FAT32. First I installed windows 98 on the 2GB FAT32 partition and then after that I installed XP Home Edition on the 8GB NTFS partition. How do I add windows 98 to the XP boot loader? Here's what it looks like.

[boot loader]
timeout=60
default=C:\
[operating systems]
C:\="Microsoft Windows"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

How do I go about putting 98 into this so I can select it or XP when the boot loader appears? :confused:

[Steve R Jones]

How to Multiple Boot Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, and MS-DOS

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[LostBok]

btw - you currently DO have win98 there....

C:\="Microsoft Windows" - is win9x of some sort...


multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect - is the XP one (obviously)... all NT based OS's specify the exact controller, disk and partition, while DOS based OS's (win9x/ME) are happy with just "C:\".

If you want it to appear as Windows 98, then change the words in quotes from "Microsoft Windows" to "Micorosft Windows 98" (or whatever else you want).

I'd recommend having winXP as your default, as you're probably only goign to want to use win98 for games compatibility and make you benchmark scores look better, replace "default=c:\" with "default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S" and then switch the timer down 10 to 30 seconds is normally plenty...


Not sure if this will work on your sys as win98 won't see the NTFS file system - I used to have a 2gig FAT32 C: and then NT4 on the secondary partition (12gig NTFS), but here goes anyway, might give you an idea or two....

I used to set my timer to 5 secs, but then had two .bat files with shortcuts to the win98 and winnt4 desktops... these two files basically took a template boot.ini file and replaced the original boot.ini and then rebooted the computer (using a freeware shutdown util)... if you want to do somehting like, then make two copies of your boot.ini file (mine were boot.nt4 and boot.w98) and then customise those two files, and create a basic .bat file that unprotects and unhides the boot.ini file (attrib -r -h -s -a c:\boot.ini - even though it won't have the -r or -s enabled, I still alway type the full string, so I know exactly where the file it) and then delete the original and replaces it with the template (del c:\boot.ini /q and then copy c:\boot.nt4 c:\boot.ini), plus if you really wan tot be flash, replace the attributes (attrib +h c:\boot.ini) will rehide the file.

These were great for allowing me to do an automated reboot from winNT into win98 for a few agmes and then when I was finished, I could reboot again without having to sit around and wait for the options screen... you'll definitely be able to run this from winXP, but I'm like I said before, by the sounds of things, your boot files are on an NTFS drive, so winME won't see them.

laters,
LostBok