dual booting with win98

Has anybody tried dual booting win98 with vista? I tried it but it wasn't
successful, even though I put vista on a separate (NTFS formatted) partition
the option boot to win98 wouldn't show up at the start. I've ditched vista
till anybody else has found a way. Had to use partition magic to reclaim the
'Vista' drive so my programs would work again in win98.
What vista did was to change drive letters i.e. C: to D:, D: to C: so that
win98 was no longer on the boot drive.
One positive was although all my other partitions (up to J were still
FAT32 they could be seen when in Vista.

Derek

Hi Derek,

Use a third party boot manager like BootIT NG from terabyteunlimited.com, as
Vista will always call its system volume C: and change the other one. With
the boot manager, you can hide each of the OS installations from the other
and have each place their boot files (io.sys for Win98) on their
installation volumes. Then Win98 will still see itself as C:.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Derek" <a@b.com> wrote in message
news:7dIQh.245$C82.70@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...
> Has anybody tried dual booting win98 with vista? I tried it but it wasn't
> successful, even though I put vista on a separate (NTFS formatted)
> partition
> the option boot to win98 wouldn't show up at the start. I've ditched vista
> till anybody else has found a way. Had to use partition magic to reclaim
> the
> 'Vista' drive so my programs would work again in win98.
> What vista did was to change drive letters i.e. C: to D:, D: to C: so that
> win98 was no longer on the boot drive.
> One positive was although all my other partitions (up to J were still
> FAT32 they could be seen when in Vista.
>
> Derek
>
>

Here are some support links for Bootit NG.

BootIt Next Generation - Videos and Tutorials
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html

BootIt Next Generation - Help and Support
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/support.html

Product Support Newsgroup Forums
http://www.bootitng.com/oehelp.html

BootIt NG Next Generation
http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/index.htm#bootedit

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


Derek wrote:
> Has anybody tried dual booting win98 with vista? I tried it but it wasn't
> successful, even though I put vista on a separate (NTFS formatted) partition
> the option boot to win98 wouldn't show up at the start. I've ditched vista
> till anybody else has found a way. Had to use partition magic to reclaim the
> 'Vista' drive so my programs would work again in win98.
> What vista did was to change drive letters i.e. C: to D:, D: to C: so that
> win98 was no longer on the boot drive.
> One positive was although all my other partitions (up to J were still
> FAT32 they could be seen when in Vista.
>
> Derek
>
>