Windows 98 can only be installed on primary?

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Tue May 07, 2002 7:40 pm

I was just messing around with partition magic and i clicked create new partition. it asked me if i wanted to install an OS on it. i said yes. i selected windows 98 and it said something like i can only install it on a primary partition.

is this true that windows 98 cant be put on a logical part of the hard drive?

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Tue May 07, 2002 8:03 pm

i just searched all over microsoft.. cant find the answer

anybody know?

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Tue May 07, 2002 9:56 pm

You can only install 98 on a primary partition! However with partition magic you can set up to 4 primary partitions.

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Wed May 08, 2002 12:51 am

well windows 98 wont recognize more than one primary.. so ill just put windows xp on a logical

thanks

Gamewiz · Post by **Gamewiz** » Wed May 08, 2002 3:38 pm

Wrong:
I had NT server on my primary disk, and WIN98 on the secondary partition, dual boot, and they worked fine.

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Wed May 08, 2002 5:00 pm

All you have to do is hide the other primary partition and use boot magic. The nice thing about setting it up that way is you will never see the other OS's files. In other words you will hae two c:\ drives.