Natalie wrote: Tim, you cannot make a partition active if it is not primary. Right-click on the 'My computer' icon, go to 'manage disks' and take a look on your partitions. If the free partition prepared for W98 is in the extended partition then you can do nothing. If it is a primary partition, then right-clicking will give you the 'make active' option. Please be sure to read this document: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/dm_active_partition.mspx And here is some more useful information for you: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348[/quote] Thanks for all the advice. It's an extended partition. I'm just going to give up on the idea now. When I get round to buying myself a desktop computer (rather than a lap top), I'll try and do myself a dual boot the proper way then (i.e., installing it all in the correct order). Tim   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Jerzy Czopik   Germany Local time: 09:08 Member (2003) Polish to German + ...	Boot loader is not that complicated at all Nov 6, 2005 I´ve managed to set up a dual boot computer for my daughter some time ago, as she needed Win98 for games (same as you). But I did first install Win98 and then Windows 2000 - it worked without any problem. She has had a HDD with two partitions - one FAT and one NTFS. If you need the Win98 story so hard, so why don´t you buy a cheap HDD (I´ve checked right now - you can get a 80 GB WD or Maxtor with 7200 rpm and 2 MB cache for 49 Euros in Dortmund) and install the whole on that HDD. So then it would be in the primary partition, which could be activated... Regards Jerzy   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Natalie   Poland Local time: 09:08 Member (2002) English to Russian + ... Moderator of this forum	Just a comment for Jerzy Nov 6, 2005 Jerzy Czopik wrote: But I did first install Win98 and then Windows 2000 - it worked without any problem. Just wanted to note that W98 and W2K install into different folders (Windows and WinNT), so they may readily coexist on the same partition as they use different boot files.   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
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