ntfs and fat32 (W98)

[crono_79]

how do i make a partition with win98 visible on win2000?

is it posible?

thanks everyone

[BertImmenschuh]

Win2000 can 'see' and work with FAT32-formatted drives as well as NTFS-formatted drives. Win98 cannot 'see' or work with NTFS-formatted drives.

That said, what I am reading in your question is that you want to dual-boot Win98 and Win2000, is that correct?

Read this before starting:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306559 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/administration/management/mltiboot.asp>http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/administration/management/mltiboot.asp</a>

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We all, each of us, have a uniqueness, some of us enjoy it, some of us don't.

[crono_79]

actually, what i want to do is to migrate from 98 to 2000, i installed 2000 now, and as you said 2000 saw 98. now i want to delete the 98 partition but when im on 2000 it says its on d, and the 98 partition on c, so i dont know if i can delete it safely, what do i have to do before doing that?

[BertImmenschuh]

What OS is first on the boot menu, Win2000 or Win98? If I didn't want to make a major change just now, I'd edit C:\boot.ini and change the line timeout=30 to <font color=blue>timeout=1</font color=blue> or <font color=blue>timeout=0</font color=blue> and let Win2000 only hesitate slightly before booting up.

Then if I wanted to change the partition sizes later with PartitionMagic, I could make C: smaller, just enough to hold Win98, say about 2GB and resize the D: partition to include what's left for Win2000.

This is the complete boot.ini on my WinXP HE and Win98SE notebook, the last 2 lines on yours will be different:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
C:\ = "Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition"

We all, each of us, have a uniqueness, some of us enjoy it, some of us don't.