[dr911]

Hey All,

I just received a "MAXTOR ATA/100 200GB" hard drive. I want to install this HD into my system. I'm running 98SE for my "master" and the "slave" as a 2nd HD. I want to divide the "new" HD into 3 sections.....1/3 for XP-pro, 1/3 for 98SE back-up and the final 1/3 for a LINUX system. I know I will need a "Dual-Boot" software (I think). So.....my question is....how do I do all of this ??

Thanks in advance

 

[Rich-M]

XP will dual boot as long as the older OS is in first which you have. But you need 3rd party software to partition the drive such as Partition magic(Norton), Partition Commander (V-com), or Acronis Disk Director to do that.

 

[crjdriver]

I am a little confused by your post. Do you have a single drive now and you want to install the maxtor as a slave OR do you now have two drives and want to install the maxtor as a third drive?
If you just want to install the maxtor as the second drive, you will not need any third party app. You can partition and format the drive however you want in XPs recovery console. Once you have the drive setup, install xp. Setup will install a dual boot menu for you. Note this is put on the root of your master drive so if you ever move it or format it, you loose the ability to boot xp [until you repair the boot files]

 

[schusterjo]

make 3 partitions on the drive, each being 15G in size. (this will allow a 4th to be made of whats left over) Install a OS in each of the 3 partitions. use the slave drive as a storage drive.

 

[dr911]

Ok...let me explain a little better. I have a "old" HD with 98SE on it now. I have a 2nd HD (200 GB) that I want to put in my system. I want to "partion" that 200 GB HD into 3 sections.

2 HD's in one system....master & slave.
I want to put on the 200GB HD three OS's.

Does this clearify every thing ??

 

[johnpost]

Hey All,

I just received a "MAXTOR ATA/100 200GB" hard drive. I want to install this HD into my system. I'm running 98SE for my "master" and the "slave" as a 2nd HD. I want to divide the "new" HD into 3 sections.....1/3 for XP-pro, 1/3 for 98SE back-up and the final 1/3 for a LINUX system. I know I will need a "Dual-Boot" software (I think). So.....my question is....how do I do all of this ??

Thanks in advance

you put the 2nd drive in machine as slave.

in MSDOS window or command line bootup, run 'fdisk'

switch it to point to the new second drive (i forget which number for
this), look at the drive (4 i recall), it should show the 2nd drive with
id as maxtor and that it has nothing on it.

after being sure you are going to do operations on the 2nd drive
the Maxtor 200G then proceed.

i don't remember all the exact stuff, fdisk isn't on this machine
to look at. don't have a MSDOS book handy either. steps
should be like.

make primary partition. it will do stuff like ask for a name. it will
ask if you want the whole drive or amount, it will take 33 to be
one third of the drive.

make a 2nd primary partition for w98SE backup the same way.

leave the last 3rd of the drive undone with fdisk. you can mess
with later with linux utilities.

all above can be done with partitioning utilities but aren't needed.

 

[crjdriver]

Before starting, I would check that your system will recognize a drive of that size. If the bios date is before around 2002, you will need to update the bios to "See" the drive.

As long as your bios is up to the lba addressing req of large hd, just install it as a slave drive. Now boot with your xp cd and boot into the recovery console. Use diskpart to partition the drive. Format from the cmd line using whatever file system you want. Since you are going to put xp on this drive AND a partition from backup for win9x. I would partition as follows; 1 partition around 40 gig or so formatted as ntfs, next one 32gig or less partitioned as fat32; leave the rest of the drive unallocated and linux will divide that into whatever file system you use.

BTW there is never a need for msdos tools when installing nt based os like xp / win2k.