A few months ago I posted about installing a dual boot OS consisting of Windows 98 and 2000 on a 40 gig hard drive I bought. I was directed to a site that advised me to make 98 the boot partition and 2000 the secondary partition, which I did. Eventually I got everything installed, but although I rarely used it, I always had some problems with the 98 partition(ie. internet connection problems, files in WIN.INI that couldn't be found). Anyway, I've decided to figure out the problems on the 98 side, but want to keep the rest of the data(win 2k, games, mp3's, etc) on the hard drive intact. Can I just format the 98 partition without affecting the other partitions and reinstall 98?? If I can't do that what should I do?
You guys can post to the Brittany Goes Nude thread, but not this one. Can anyone give me some help here????
Maybe if you posted a few pics of your computer nude, you would get more responses. ...I know Dr of Dunk would get excited if you did...
If you JUST format the letter of the drive 98 is on, then yes it's okay. You won't be able to repartition the drive, though, unless you have partition magic or something.
why use 98 at all? If I was making this system, I would install 98 first. Then install a fresh 2000 from 98. You have to keep the file system FAT 32. Should work... Also you could get a 98 boot disk - partition the drive into two 20gb's with FDISK and then format the drives, then install the OS's to the different partitions...?
