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I'm currently using win98 as operating system on c drive, want to know the best way to add a second operating system such as win2000. Also would it be possible to just add a second hard drive to my pc and just partition it and put the second operating system in it and use a dual boot process to work with both operating systems?
Was trying to install a second operating system(2000) on my computer which already had Win98 installed. I used a separate hard drive(20GB) to install Win2000 making sure to keep both OS physically seperate. My other Hard drive which has Win98 also is 20GB. But during setup Win2000 couldn't copy certain files and warned me if i continued with the setup that Win2000 may not work properly or setup could be incomplete. So i decided to skip these files and continue. As i finished and rebooted into Win2000, i got a message "STOP: c0000135 {Unable to locate DLL} The dynamic link library winsrv could not be found in the specified Default Load Path." Because of this i wasn't able to get into Win2000. Can this be fixed and what do i need to do? Would appreciate any help.....
Was trying to install a second operating system(2000) on my computer which already had Win98 installed. I used a separate hard drive(20GB) to install Win2000 making sure to keep both OS physically seperate. My other Hard drive which has Win98 also is 20GB. But during setup Win2000 couldn't copy certain files and warned me if i continued with the setup that Win2000 may not work properly or setup could be incomplete. So i decided to skip these files and continue. As i finished and rebooted into Win2000, i got a message "STOP: c0000135 {Unable to locate DLL} The dynamic link library winsrv could not be found in the specified Default Load Path." Because of this i wasn't able to get into Win2000. Can this be fixed and what do i need to do? Would appreciate any help.....
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My computer dual boots linux and w2k off of 2 hard drives. I think the best way to go about it is using seperate hard drives. That way you don't have to worry about file systems matching or whatever. The only problem is fat32 on the boot disk. w2k will read/write fat32, so they can put the w2k boot loader on the win 98 disk and install on a second disk. If you want to dual boot an older nt with a fat32 boot disk, then you are pretty much out of luck, unless someone has written a boot loader program for 98. Now, if you were wanting to triple boot with 98, linux and nt, the linux boot loader will do it.
d00d, if your system is new enough to handle win2k, just install your 2nd hdd, and install win2k on it, If it were me I would format the hdd in fat32 for access reasons,
Win2k will take care of the dual boot for you
later,
mike
Win2k will take care of the dual boot for you
later,
mike
Check out winternals.com for a sweet free program that will allow you to read NTFS drives from Win98. If you pay like 15-20 dollars, you can get the one that reads/writes. NTFS is a far superior file system, use it whenever you can (except for Win98 partitions of coourse!)
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Sorry for the very lateness. Been out of the country for awhile. But thanks for your great answer......