help creating dual boot 305

Please read all of this before deciding:

1. The new drive is formatted as NTFS which came out AFTER Win98, so that's why win98 doesn't recognize it - it's an unknown format. As far as it knows the new drive isn't formatted at all. 2. Even if it could , when you installed the software on each drive , each drive was called C: . so even if each COULD now boot , one of the drives will be D: not C: - so no software that's on the D drive would work anyway , since all references in it's registry would refer to C:-... Unless you bought a boot utility program. 3. SO if you want 2 drives, put your win98 drive back as C and install Win2000 to the D: drive. *** AND *** IF you want to access that D drive from win98, first format that W2K disk from within Win98 - it will then be Fat32. (right-click on the D drive in Windows Explorer). I would recommend having both as Fat32 because, from experience I can tel you, you will same some files in Win2000 and later need them when you're using Win98 and it'll be much easier to double-click - copy rrather than reboot. If you don't need to use the second drive from Win98 , then you can leave it as NTFS ( NTFS is from Windows "NT" . NTFS = New Technology File System - as opposed to the OLD file system - FATFAT32 for Win9x).

Think this over though - if W2k is installed as D: you'll have to leave it as D: You can't just "pop out" the C drive , move a jumper and have the W2k work as C, since the registry will still show your programs as residing on D: . If you later want it as C, you'll need to reinstall.

Another option is to NOT take the deafult folder and install Win2000 to a different folder on your existing C drive (say C:-Win2000) and use the second drive for data (which is what I did ).