Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 07:02:17 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. You may be right but I didn't see that in the manual. However, I do agree that Windows 2000 is a superior operating system to Windows 98 and one doesn't have to go through Microsoft everytime one wants to tinker with his computer or reinstall an operating system.
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