Vonnieglen
Member
Thank you for the wonderful product! I purchased a new Compaq Presario laptop with OEM Vista Home Premium preinstalled. I have a recovery DVD and Disc Partition which contain a disc image which does only a destructive install.
I spent hours on the phone and in online chat with HP/Compaq support trying to get them to send me a proper OEM copy of Windows Vista so that I could install my operating systems in the recommended order of Windows 98, Windows XP and then Vista. I finally had to give up.
Using BCD 1.52 and Vista's disc management tools, I was able to add Windows XP and coax the machine to dual boot. This actually solves 95% of my practical difficulties, but my original goal was to have a multiple boot containing Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and a Linux build or two.
I am not having any success trying to trick Windows 98 SE into installing onto a FAT32 partition of a drive where the boot partition is NTFS. My plan is to install a different hard drive in the laptop. Install Windows 98 on the new drive, and then image this partition onto the FAT32 partition prepared on the original drive. I will then reinstall the original drive back into the laptop. I have ordered the parts needed, but is there another way? Does this solution have a good probability of working?
I spent hours on the phone and in online chat with HP/Compaq support trying to get them to send me a proper OEM copy of Windows Vista so that I could install my operating systems in the recommended order of Windows 98, Windows XP and then Vista. I finally had to give up.
Using BCD 1.52 and Vista's disc management tools, I was able to add Windows XP and coax the machine to dual boot. This actually solves 95% of my practical difficulties, but my original goal was to have a multiple boot containing Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and a Linux build or two.
I am not having any success trying to trick Windows 98 SE into installing onto a FAT32 partition of a drive where the boot partition is NTFS. My plan is to install a different hard drive in the laptop. Install Windows 98 on the new drive, and then image this partition onto the FAT32 partition prepared on the original drive. I will then reinstall the original drive back into the laptop. I have ordered the parts needed, but is there another way? Does this solution have a good probability of working?