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Subject: Re: Is there a way to make multiboot on WinXP after installation of XP?

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 06:50:59 01/25/02

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On January 25, 2002 at 09:14:49, Kevin Strickland wrote:

>On January 25, 2002 at 09:09:40, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>
>>On January 25, 2002 at 07:48:21, Georg Langrath wrote:
>>
>>>I have Century 4. Unfortunately it doesn't work on my operating system Windows
>>>XP. I have heard that you can make multiboot if you install win 98 first. But as
>>>I already have installed Windows XP it is not an easy task to make a multiboot
>>>with reinstalling of all my programs.
>>>Is there a way to install win 98 for multiboot together with Windows XP and
>>>install win 98 after installing of XP is already done?
>>>
>>>Georg
>>
>>"Partition Magic 7" which includes "Boot Magic" should allow it as long as the
>>operating systems are located in a primary partition.
>
>Actually no it won't. You _have_ to install Win98 first as the boot sector for
>Windows 2000/XP takes precedence over the older versions of Windows. I tried
>several ways of doing and the only one that works is installing Win98 first.
>
>I also use NTFS always so I had to create a FAT32 partition for Win98 which made
>my system a tad unstable. I have zero problems using Rebel 4.0 in Windows 2000.
>So I just axed WinXP and went soley to Windows 2000.

Starting to the recovery console and do a fixboot and maybe fixmbr should to the
trick.

Ernst.



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