2007-03-20 01:41:32 · 11 answers · asked by raja 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Yes you can.
There are a couple of different ways to go about it.
If the D: drive is a logical dive then you may want to use software like :
" Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 OS Selector "
It allows you to install 100 or more multiple operating systems (OSes) on one computer. You can boot an OS from any partition on any hard disk or have several multiboot systems on the same partition.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/multibooting.html
If the D: drive is a physical hard drive of its own you can simply choose it as the primary boot device in your BIOS, install Win98 on it, & use the boot options in the BIOS to toggle back & forth to the OS you wish to use.
regards,
Philip T
2007-03-20 01:56:55 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it's no walk in the park.
You may have to resize your partitions. The Win98 installer cannot do that. WinXP cannot do that. You need a separate partitioner.
Secondly you will have bootproblems. Since you install Win98 last, it will install the bootloader. Find out if it accepts other bootable partitions as well or you won't be able to boot WinXP anymore.
A better solution: Download (for free) Microsoft Virtual PC.
With that you can install Win98 in a virtual machine inside Windows XP. You can run Win98 and exchange data with XP. You can run it fullscreen so it looks and feels 100% like Win98.
And all of that is just an application on WinXP.
Btw You will need more than 512MB of ram for this.
2007-03-20 01:53:46 · answer #2 · answered by mgerben 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's easy and I do it to run some of my old DOS games. I use PowerQuest's PartitionMagic to break the drive into two and BootMagic for an easy dual boot. You wont see the XP drive in 98 mode but you can choose to see the 98 partition from XP. The 98 partition must not be formatted to NTFS.
2007-03-20 01:59:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need to make a dual boot system. The proper way of doing that would be to install 98 first then XP. You could temp unhook your c: drive and install win98 on the d:drive (which would be C) Then hook up the XP as D: and edit the BIOS so that you can get a dual boot.
2007-03-20 02:08:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can install Win 98 on D drive. All it will happen is it will ask you when you boot your system that on which operating system you want to work on and you select your choice..
Enjoy take care
2007-03-23 13:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by duke the Janus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pc technician right here.... sure you could set up abode windows ninety 8 on force "D:" yet you're able to desire to make it a commonplace no longer hassle-free disk and have it act as "C:" force while installation the abode windows ninety 8. With the two abode windows XP and abode windows ninety 8, you would be waiting to twin boot them out of your pc and as quickly as you're in abode windows XP, it incredibly is going to be "C: on a similar time as abode windows ninety 8 would be "D:". this might pass vice versa once you twin boot them. in basic terms a notice: Microsoft discontinued helping abode windows ninety 8 to boot as abode windows ME. desire this permits.
2016-10-01 05:26:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this would be called Dual Boot.
so if there's something wrong with one of the OS, you could still access files using the other OS.
and yes, you can do that
2007-03-20 01:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by godrics_hollow3107 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,of course.I did it for several times,the only thing that u must to know is working with your hard drive partitions.
2007-03-20 01:51:36 · answer #8 · answered by Tom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes do 1 thing ...use partition magic ,,,,
this way u can use .....ur d drive even to put linux to it
2007-03-20 18:18:26 · answer #9 · answered by utsav goyal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not ...its not a problem unless u know how to partition the drives...
2007-03-20 02:12:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋