Spiderkeys
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Today, I was playing around with an old PC.
Here was my plan: Triple boot menu of Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000
How I tried to go about it: 1. I Split an 80Gig IDE Drive in 2 partitions.
2. Installed Windows ME First
3. Then Installed Windows 2000 on the other partition
(so far so good, 2000 detects it and create it's only dual boot menu.)
4. Disconnected the 80GIG drive and temporary replaced it with a old 10GIG Drive
5. Installed Windows 98
6. All good so far, now reconnected the 80GIG Drive back, turned the 10GIG into a
slave with a jumper into the correct spot and plugged the end of the ribbon
Cable in, while the 80GIG (Master) get the middle part of the ribbon.
7. Attempted to edit the boot.ini creating a new entry trying to point at Windows98
on the slave drive.
Then frustated I thought bugger it, I should just use EasyBCD and create the menu there, so obviously I had tem porary install WinXP for just the sole purpose of that, and split the 80gig into 3 partitions.
After that on WinXP I installed the Net 2.0 framework, and installed EASYBCD 3.2 beta, but what I didn't know it's looks like it won't work correctly without vista as it uses it bootloader or something.
Anyway I tried to write a blank vista and xp bootloader to the MBR, But it's only let me create 1 entry, if I attempt to create another trying to point as ME or 2000, I get an errorbox stating Insuffient System Resources exist to complete the requested service or something.
So what gives, am i low on RAM as there is only a 512MB stick inside the case?
Or am i screwed and it's not possible? or anyway I could reinstalled Win2000 in attempt for it to "see" win98?
Here was my plan: Triple boot menu of Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000
How I tried to go about it: 1. I Split an 80Gig IDE Drive in 2 partitions.
2. Installed Windows ME First
3. Then Installed Windows 2000 on the other partition
(so far so good, 2000 detects it and create it's only dual boot menu.)
4. Disconnected the 80GIG drive and temporary replaced it with a old 10GIG Drive
5. Installed Windows 98
6. All good so far, now reconnected the 80GIG Drive back, turned the 10GIG into a
slave with a jumper into the correct spot and plugged the end of the ribbon
Cable in, while the 80GIG (Master) get the middle part of the ribbon.
7. Attempted to edit the boot.ini creating a new entry trying to point at Windows98
on the slave drive.
Then frustated I thought bugger it, I should just use EasyBCD and create the menu there, so obviously I had tem porary install WinXP for just the sole purpose of that, and split the 80gig into 3 partitions.
After that on WinXP I installed the Net 2.0 framework, and installed EASYBCD 3.2 beta, but what I didn't know it's looks like it won't work correctly without vista as it uses it bootloader or something.
Anyway I tried to write a blank vista and xp bootloader to the MBR, But it's only let me create 1 entry, if I attempt to create another trying to point as ME or 2000, I get an errorbox stating Insuffient System Resources exist to complete the requested service or something.
So what gives, am i low on RAM as there is only a 512MB stick inside the case?
Or am i screwed and it's not possible? or anyway I could reinstalled Win2000 in attempt for it to "see" win98?