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Dual Boot and Partition
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| CADBY 2001-09-06, 11:19 pm |
| Installed Win2000 Pro in a PC running Win98. I configured it for dual boot. During the Win2000 install procedure i created 2 partitions D: and E: and installed Win2000 in partition D:. Install was successful but a check with Disk Management revealed that partitions D and E came out as extended partitions with C (Win98) as the only primary partition. Anything wrong with this? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. | |
| Joe Blacke 2001-09-06, 11:52 pm |
| You can't have 2 extended partitions. You can have either 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions and ONE extended partition. The extended partion is subdivided into logical drives and should encompass all available free space on the disk.
When you are running Windows 2000 and another OS, you must keep your disk as a basic disk. If you convert the disk to a dynamic disk, only Windows 2000 will be able to read the disk, and this will prevent you from using any other operating system on that disk. Converting a disk from basic to dynamic, makes the partitions into volumes. It also allows you to add fault tolerance if you are running Windows 2000 Server.
If you go into disk management, and it does in fact say that you have multiple primary partitions, and one extended partition, then you have it set up properly.
I don't see how it would be possible to create multiple extended partitions on the same physical disk. | |
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| My mistake. D and E are logical drives on the extended partition where Win2000 was installed in D and the only primary parition showing is the one where Win98 resides which i also set up as the active partition.
Is my current set-up good to go or would it be best to have Win2000 on a primary parition? How would i do about changing this?
Thanks. | |
| MainerInExile 2001-09-07, 6:02 pm |
| Mabuhay!
You should be good to go from what I can tell.
I have mine set up the same, with WIN98SE on C: and use it for my games that don't run on W2K. I set up D: for W2K and E: as a Data Drive and Page File with NTFS (I don't care that WIN98SE cannot see them).I use W2K for everything else, I like the no crashes and security.
Is it still rainy season there? I left in 1987 and kind of miss the green and water (but not too much). | |
| Joe Blacke 2001-09-07, 10:55 pm |
| If you are able to boot with both systems, then you should be okay.
However, the preferred method is to place the operating system on PRIMARY partitions. You could leave C as it is, and create a second primary partion (D). Install windows 2000 onto this second primary partion. The rest of your free space can be rolled into one extended partition and broken into logical drives.
If you decide to blow away the extended partition to create a new primary, you will not be able to use Fdisk. | |
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| I've tried reinstalling Win2K several times and each time it comes out the same. The partitions that I create during the Win2000 install procedure ends up being on the extended partition along with all my unparitioned space.I'm a bit hesitant to use Parition Magic or the like. My set-up works fine though.
P.S. It's supposed to be rainy season here but feels more like summer these days. | |
| Joe Blacke 2001-09-08, 11:42 pm |
| Have you tried using the Windows 2000 setup program to delete the extended partion? You can then reboot, and run Fdisk to create a second Primary partition. Reboot a second time and rerun Windows 2000 setup to load the OS onto this new primary partition. | |
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| Ran Win2K setup and deleted D: and E: which both appear as partitions. After deleting I rebooted and ran FDISK from MS Dos Mode of Win98. However FDISK won't allow to create a second primary partition.
Ran Win2K setup again and this time chose to install without creating a partition.(In this case my entire unpartitioned free-space). Again install was successful and am able to dual-boot. But disk management still shows D: belonging to the extended partition. What gives? |
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