You made those partitions with some OS setup and that's your problem as NTSF is available but not for win98. I know you're not trying to access the NTSF but you really need to start witn win98 first. Kill alll those partitons, just delete or wipe them out9use http://www.killdisk.com). Get your hands on a bootable floppy(yeah!) with win98 made as a "startup diskette". It will have all you need. However, if your HD is bigger than 64gb, then you need the bootdisk from http://www.bootdisk.com and get the one for windows98SE. Download it make the bootable win98SE floppy. Later, boot with it in there and then FDISK, format. etc., then make the three partitions, all FAT32. Once all complete, now install windoze 98, load all drivers and updates, etc, until finish. Now you can load windoze XP or any other OS. *HINT* load the oldest windoze first then the next, next, etc. Under XP load, make sure you pick the right partition. Once done, you can convert or convert while installing(beforehand) the OS. It will ask if you lioke dual boot, pick YES. Last, if you like, you edit the dual boot menu, enter the XP device mgr. area and select the 1st and 2nd boot sequence order, save, apply then exit. You can get alot of info from this website: http://www.blackviper.com
tada -----Willy :}
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