installin Win98 & WinXP on SATA disk

vish786 · 28-07-2007, 12:48 PM

I need to install Win XP and Win 98 on my 40 GB sata disk, this is my partitions

C: 10 GB Fat32 (Want WinXP here)
D: 20 GB Fat32 (Logical Drive)
E: 1 GB Fat32 (Want Win98se in this partition)
F: 8 GB (yet unallocated, will b used as logical or for linux)

i want an clean installation,
i already installed winxp on C: drive and then installed Win98se on E: drive (1 GB)...
but win98se is not booting dont know what is the problem

... It just gets hack after this message, this happened immediately after installing win98se during my first boot into win98se.

can someone help me install both ??

wow so many windows users and nobody knows how to install both win xp and win 98 on sata ??? weird ???

shantanu · 28-07-2007, 12:56 PM

well first you should have installed Windows 98se on E: and after that winxp on C .. this way you should have no problem installing windows ..

vish786 · 28-07-2007, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by shantanu

well first you should have installed Windows 98se on E: and after that winxp on C .. this way you should have no problem installing windows ..

i did that also but does not boot into win98

shantanu · 28-07-2007, 12:58 PM

and also increase win98 partition to 1.5 gb or 2 gb if possible..

means only windows 98 and no XP and then also its not booting into 98.. ? whats your config... ?

vish786 · 28-07-2007, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by shantanu

and also increase win98 partition to 1.5 gb or 2 gb if possible..

size does not matter here dude.

shantanu · 28-07-2007, 01:00 PM

size matters a lot.. in life

... whats your config... ? and i asked another q? above..

vish786 · 28-07-2007, 01:01 PM

i formatted my sata hard disk today mornin and installed win98se " ONLY " on C: Drive but still comp does not boot into win98se but it boots in safe mode. ? and c: drive partition was 2GB this time forgot to mention that.

Config:
Asrock intel 775i65G Mobo
Proccy 2.66
ram 512 DDR
sata disk 40 GB.

shantanu · 28-07-2007, 01:03 PM

hey bro.. windows 98 does not support SATA.. so it wont boot into sata.. and + Sata can only be used as a storage option in windows 98.. so no luck in SATA.. for 98...

sorry..

vish786 · 28-07-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by shantanu

hey bro.. windows 98 does not support SATA.. so it wont boot into sata.. and + Sata can only be used as a storage option in windows 98.. so no luck in SATA.. for 98...

sorry..

but how come its bootin in ' SAFE MODE " ?(Big Question)

shantanu · 28-07-2007, 01:07 PM

naah ! not a big question... in safe mode... windows 98 does not loads the SCSI drivers.. and SATA is not SCSI but it detects it as a SCSI device.. so no HDD drivers are loaded.. and SATA is just shown as Temporary Removable storage.. i tried it about 2 years back.. and searched google all the way for installing 98 and linux but that time had no luck coz only Windows XP SP1 supports SATA ... as boot device..