Dual Booting my system.

you have to install W98 first, which means you have to use the FDISK command on a W98 bootdisk to set up the drive by creating two separate partitions on the drive (one for W98 at about 20GB and one for XP with the balance). Then use the FORMAT command on that same bootdisk to format the W98 partition and install Windows on it. (You can format the XP partition at the same time if you want, as that way both drives are FAT32...or you can let XP format it later during its installation to NTFS)

Once you have W98 installed and running with all the motherboard and other hardware drivers installed and your internet working properly, you can then boot up with the XP cd and install it to the other partition.

You will have to again, install all the motherboard and other hardware drivers for XP this time and get your internet working for that operating system.

You will also have to install all your programs twice...once on each drive that you want to access from either boot situation.

You can create one email storage place for both though to be in the same location so that when you use the Outlook Express program from either one you will have all your mail in one spot.

Anything from your old drive that you want to salvage or copy over to either of the new drives can be done by attaching that old drive temporarily to the same cable as the new drive, boot up and use Windows Explorer to drag and drop files, documents, downloaded files, Favorites, etc. to each drive. You can also use the Outlook Express program to import your old mail and your addressbook from the old drive to the new one.

Anything you don't know how to do, you can post back and detailed instructions will be given by very compentent members.

Once you have both drives installed with the operating systems, you will automatically get an option as you boot up to choose which one you want to work in.

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