Dual boot issues.

I've had XP on my system for awhile and found most games will not run under XP. Unlike what microsift thinks, I didn't have W98 loaded BEFORE I installed XP to create the dual boot selection.

I know that W98 will wipe out the boot.ini if it is loaded AFTER XP on the same drive. I've avoided that by loading XP on a separate drive formatted with Fat32. All the XP drives are NTFS.

Both operating systems have intack boot.ini files and boot from BIOS fine. If I remove the ATA drive with XP, the SCSI drive with W98SE becomes the boot drive "0" and boots to W98. If I go into BIOS and initialize the ATA drive, it then is the primary boot drive and boots to XP.

This is what it looks like in XP. The two boot drives are first, then the paertioned drives after that.

c: / 20gig XP (80 gig partioned, NTFS)
d: / 4.5 gig (SCSI entire drive with W98, FAT32) boot id "0"
d: / 60 gig XP (80 gig drive partioned, NTFS)
e: / 9.2 gig (SCSI entire drive NTFS)boot id "1"
f: CD-ROM

In W98SE I have;
c: \ W98SE
d: \ CD-ROM
W98 doesn't see, or include, the NTFS drives. Fine by me.

So, the boot.ini files are both in working order.

The question is, how do you manually edit and create the dual boot string ETC in XP's boot.ini file so it boots to whichever operating system you prefer? I know whetre to put the operationg system string in the boot.ini editor, but what should it be, and what other settings are needed to avoid the .dll error you get when it thinks the boot.ini is corrupted (XP still hasn't "seen" the other operating system, yet).

I can't believe the ONLY way to add W98 is to wipe out XP and load W98SE first, then XP.

I know someone else has had to have been here before.

regards,
rower30@earthlink.net