Need help with dual boot / mulit-boot of MS-WinXP and MS-Win98SE when OSes are already installed to disks.
PC is HP d530 CMT (DG768A) with 3ghz single core Intel and 3 gb RAM, BIOS is v02.44, Disks are; one 1 tb sata drive with WinXP loaded, one 80 gb PATA drive with Win98SE loaded.
I had a third "master" drive with Solaris installed and all three OS where controlled by GRUB off that disk. That drive went bad hard (Building new machine for my Solaris/Linux needs). Trying to get my existing machine going again with remaining Microsoft OSes.
When both drives are installed, the system boots off SATA and MS-WinXP comes up just fine.
When I unplug the SATA drive, the MS-Win98SE boots just fine off the PATA drive.
HP boot bios when activated during boot time with F9 only gives; cd-rom, usb, nic, local disk (default is always C
. It does not offer a sub-menu allowing me to choose which local Disk to use.
When MS-WixXP boots;
SATA 1 tb disk drive = C:, E:, F:, G:
PATA 80gb disk drive = H:, I:
I made I: and G: into 18mb FAT16 for install of BootMagic 7.0 (have original CD with serial number key). But I cannot get BootMagic to install on MS-WinXP. Get error; “The specified folder :\BTMAGIC.PQ is invalid”. Of course it is, the drive later is missing, but the installer gives me no GUI input ability to specify where I want to install Boot Magic (want to install on G).
BootMagic was part of PartitionMagic by PowerQuest, purchased by Symantec, now not supported.
Another boot manager I use to use in the day was “System Commander” by VCOM, but VCOM seems not to support it anymore.
In searching the internet , I found Bootit by Terabyte, but my review of their 94 page pdf on how to cfg download to burn iso image left me feeling there must be a simpler product out there.
Microsoft site explains how to do this as; new installs, first MS-Win98 first, then install MS-WinXP. I already have these installed and patched and don’t want to re-install/ re-patch them because doing such for 98 is big pain and XP now takes days to complete its patching even when coming from a SP3 DVD.
Can anyone help me get multi-boot working?
What are the good dual-boot / mulit-boot programs today that had deal with disks that already have OSes installed on them?
PC is HP d530 CMT (DG768A) with 3ghz single core Intel and 3 gb RAM, BIOS is v02.44, Disks are; one 1 tb sata drive with WinXP loaded, one 80 gb PATA drive with Win98SE loaded.
I had a third "master" drive with Solaris installed and all three OS where controlled by GRUB off that disk. That drive went bad hard (Building new machine for my Solaris/Linux needs). Trying to get my existing machine going again with remaining Microsoft OSes.
When both drives are installed, the system boots off SATA and MS-WinXP comes up just fine.
When I unplug the SATA drive, the MS-Win98SE boots just fine off the PATA drive.
HP boot bios when activated during boot time with F9 only gives; cd-rom, usb, nic, local disk (default is always C
. It does not offer a sub-menu allowing me to choose which local Disk to use.When MS-WixXP boots;
SATA 1 tb disk drive = C:, E:, F:, G:
PATA 80gb disk drive = H:, I:
I made I: and G: into 18mb FAT16 for install of BootMagic 7.0 (have original CD with serial number key). But I cannot get BootMagic to install on MS-WinXP. Get error; “The specified folder :\BTMAGIC.PQ is invalid”. Of course it is, the drive later is missing, but the installer gives me no GUI input ability to specify where I want to install Boot Magic (want to install on G).
BootMagic was part of PartitionMagic by PowerQuest, purchased by Symantec, now not supported.
Another boot manager I use to use in the day was “System Commander” by VCOM, but VCOM seems not to support it anymore.
In searching the internet , I found Bootit by Terabyte, but my review of their 94 page pdf on how to cfg download to burn iso image left me feeling there must be a simpler product out there.
Microsoft site explains how to do this as; new installs, first MS-Win98 first, then install MS-WinXP. I already have these installed and patched and don’t want to re-install/ re-patch them because doing such for 98 is big pain and XP now takes days to complete its patching even when coming from a SP3 DVD.
Can anyone help me get multi-boot working?
What are the good dual-boot / mulit-boot programs today that had deal with disks that already have OSes installed on them?
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