Some OS Issues... :\

Prop
11-16-2002, 12:34 AM
Currently I'm on Win XP, on my drive. (G:) My family is on the other drive (C:) which is also XP. So I already have a dual boot. But in order to play some games I want to play I'd need Win 98 or Win ME. But ever time I try to Install a copy of windows98 or ME on my drive It gives me some errors about how I can't run setup for Windows ME on a Windows 2000/XP OS.. When I try to install Windows 98, it says to start in MS-DOS mode and install from there. But I have yet to find MS-DOS mode on XP. Just the command promt..

Anyway, the question for you computer geniuses is,
How do I go about getting Windows ME or Windows 98 SE on my computer when I'm already on XP.. :\

considering I have "legit versions" of all my OS's..



























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CandyMan
11-16-2002, 01:10 AM
have to have 9x installed before 2k or xp, or you have to have a drive/partition with FAT/FAT32 on it instead of NTFS.

Infinity
11-18-2002, 03:36 PM
There are some programs that take the unused sectors on your hard drive and make a seperate partition without having to format.

{BEE}Nomad
11-18-2002, 10:27 PM
From what I have read W98 has to be on the 1st partition. If you already have XP installed then I really don't know if you can use something like PartionMagic to create a new 1st partition and then install to that. Kind of risky IMO. Best solution would to be start from scratch - install W98 and then XP - unless you have a bunch of stuff that you can't replace.