Dual booting with Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE

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I am in a spot of bother. I already have Windows 2000 SP4
set up on an NTFS disk. I recently acquired a seperate HDD,
and wish to install Win98SE (FAT32 obviously). Everywhere
I've read says that I must install Windows 98SE first, but
this is impossible as I don't wont to format/reinstall
Win2000. Is there anyway of multibooting? I don't need to
interact between the two disks (i.e. when I use win98se, I
don't need to see any of the files on the NTFS formatted HDD).

Thanks in advance.
-Martin Pietsch

 

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"Martin Pietsch" <marty_pietsch@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am in a spot of bother. I already have Windows 2000 SP4
> set up on an NTFS disk. I recently acquired a seperate HDD,
> and wish to install Win98SE (FAT32 obviously). Everywhere
> I've read says that I must install Windows 98SE first, but
> this is impossible as I don't wont to format/reinstall
> Win2000. Is there anyway of multibooting?

It's only Microsoft's dopey multiboot scheme that requires 98 to be
installed first, but that's not a genuine multiboot. Take a look at a real
boot manager, such as XOSL (www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm), GAG
(sourceforge.net), or BootIt-NG (www.bootitng.com).