i tried vista yesterday, i need newer windows on my PC for some compatibility betatests (and sometimes to show some stubborn heads that problem is not Win9x related).

only way i found is to use two harddisks. Since i have SCSI controller it would not be a problem to add so much disks i need, but i am just curious if somebody suceeded vista on FAT32 side by side with Win9x.

I have been trying, but no luck at this point I would think you would have to install 98 on on HD and on you primary HD edit boot.ini (if vista has boot.ini never had a chance to look) a method i found that may work edit the boot options through System Propertes >> Advanced >> Startup and Recovery

it may only work with Xp though Pic shows what im talking about.

http://q6mcwg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ps05...t%20Setings.jpg

not sure if any of this will help I just use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run my 98 software

i am just curious if somebody suceeded vista on FAT32 side by side with Win9x.

I don't know whether he also has Win 9x/ME on his machine, I guess not. But the great Dietmar has succeeded at installing Vista on FAT-32 and wrote a tutorial on how to do it. (link) See the post my link points to and the one immediately following it. HTH

Edited February 26, 200917 yr by dencorso

sounds very interesting

@helpdsk

FYI:

the booting process is completely different, basically:

NT/2K/XP/2003 | Vista/2008

NTLDR --------->BOOTMGR

BOOT.INI ------->BCD

More details and graphical explanation:

http://www.multibooters.co.uk/multiboot.html

jaclaz