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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Performance / May 2006Win98SE & 2000 on same HHD
I just installed Win2000Pro onto a partition (25GB) on my main HDD (120GB) that also has Win98SE on it. Win98SE is on the C:\drive and Win2000Pro is on the i drive. I formatted the Win2000Pro partition to the NTFS format while 98 and the others are still FAT32. Was that a mistake? Seems that Win98SE cannot recognize the new system but 2000 can see and access the 98 drives. I have no real problem with that, so far. Two more questions: I installed another copy on my anti-virus on the new 2000Pro and I also installed another copy of AdAware and SpywareBlaster on the new 2000 partition. Is it necessary or advisable to have two copies of the same antivirus on one HDD containing both SE and Win2000Pro system? Do I also have to install another ZAPro on the new system? ( believe I do ) Would there have been a better way to do it while utilizing only one HDD? Thanks, Buffalo PS:I can start over with the Win2000 system since I don't have that much on it yet (the updates did take quite awhile though). In-line: > I just installed Win2000Pro onto a partition (25GB) on my main HDD (120GB) that > also has Win98SE on it. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Was that a mistake? Seems that Win98SE cannot recognize the new system but 2000 > can see and access the 98 drives. I have no real problem with that, so far. No, that wasn't a mistake. If you want to use Windows 2000 to its fullest capabilities it should be installed on NTFS. Windows 9x cannot read NTFS files system so that is why it can't see the Windows 2000 installation. For its part Windows 2000 can read FAT, FAT32 and NTFS so that is why it can see the Windows 98 installation. Other than data you cannot really share anything between the two operating systems so it doesn't matter that Windows 98 cannot see Windows 2000. As implied earlier if you want to share data files between the operating systems the common data will have to be stored on a FAT32 volume. > Two more questions: > I installed another copy on my anti-virus on the new 2000Pro and I also > installed another copy of AdAware and SpywareBlaster on the new 2000 partition. > Is it necessary or advisable to have two copies of the same antivirus on one HDD > containing both SE and Win2000Pro system? That is the only way it can be done. You have to install the software on each Operating System. As you already know about software installation and the Windows registry if you think about it a bit it becomes clear that the applications have to be installed on each operating system to function properly. Also, sharing the Program Files and other such folders between the operating systems is not recommended. > Do I also have to install another ZAPro on the new system? ( believe I do ) > Would there have been a better way to do it while utilizing only one HDD? As mentioned earlier, you have to install programs for each operating system, so you have to install ZA again for it to work properly with Windows 2000, there is no other way to do this. John > In-line: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > John I thought that was the answer, but since I never had a dual boot, I just wanted to be sure. Thanks for your input. Buffalo You're Welcome. John >>In-line: >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks for your input. > Buffalo |
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