desidud

hi, i tried to had Win98,2000,xp,2003 as my multiple boot. started with win98 but when it came to "installing hardware compnents' part with some 8 mins remaining it showed this 'your multi-funtional device (Standard Dual PC IDE controller) has some child device using 32-bit drivers and other using compatibility mode drivers. This configuration is not supported, so your computer has been halted to prevent corruption" i m having 160GB SATA HD,AMD athlon dual core then i had win2000, XP & server 2003 running successfully as my multiple boot option installed on different drive. with drive C as my active partition having win2000 in it. i tried to install vista with DVD ROM as 1st boot device but it kept showing error some file/driver missing windows\system32\drivers\fltmgr.sys i tried to install vista after booting with XP. installation started but after copying files PC restarted n then nothing happened...blank screen, not even the multiple boot options anymore. i reformatted my HD, installed XP & then successfully installed Vista but then i installed win2000 & woof! Vista was gone from boot option though the files were there in the drive but now i had XP & 2000 as boot option. is it possible to have all 4 as multiple boot option? if yes then whats the proper order of installation? if no then which all Windows OS can co-exist with Vista as part of multiple boot. have few more queries regarding multiple booting with linux but later in linux section looking forward to answers, regards.

hello, introducing myself as desidud. actually introducing after posting a query & getting some relative ans from the seniors which i think is very fast as compared to other tech forum i am in. hopefully queries will be answered here n hopefully members here dont get p***ed off answering to queries as experienced elsewhere. would love to share my scattered knowledge too regards to all, dd.

excellent!! just check it out..its like going deeper n deeper in the que asked. tnx a lot jaclaz..will surely increase my knowlege too bout bootable cd's n how they r made. just incase i have any more queries regarding the same, hopefully it will be replied with too tnx once again...

tnx glen for ur input..but why to have or to create a floppy image to make bootable cd

what is the need of floppy emulation. cant bootable cd be created without floppy emulation? n what is floppy emulation, kinda confused

while we boot from HD we see C promt. while booting from floppy we see A prompt & when booting from bootable CD we still see A prompt...why so? i have 4 partitions labelled as C,D,E,F & G(dvd rw). when trying to change driver letter of any of the drive by going to administrative tools & then to computer management, then using disk management i never see letters 'A' & 'B', why so?