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Dual booting XP and Win98.
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I found a tossed out 10 gig hdd a few weeks ago, and finally got around to plugging it into my PC today. It worked, surprisingly, so I formatted it (as the Win98 install on it was horribly overrun with viruses and spyware. Seriously, I felt bad for whoever use to own it.) and installed a fresh copy of Win98 on it. Got video drivers working on it, sound drivers, the works. Now, the idea is this drive is solely so I can play old games that don't work in XP, such as I-76. That works too.
My problem is, I have 2 200 gig hdd's for XP, hooked up through SATA, and the 10 gig 98 drive is hooked up through an IDE cable. When I boot the PC, I don't get the option to choose which OS I want to boot into, it just boots into 98. I have it set in XP to let me choose which OS I want to boot into, so does anyone know what I'm not doing right here?
My problem is, I have 2 200 gig hdd's for XP, hooked up through SATA, and the 10 gig 98 drive is hooked up through an IDE cable. When I boot the PC, I don't get the option to choose which OS I want to boot into, it just boots into 98. I have it set in XP to let me choose which OS I want to boot into, so does anyone know what I'm not doing right here?
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Maybe it's set to boot into the IDE drives prior to the SATA drives, so Windows XP never gets a chance to allow you to dual boot.