Loading 2 operating systems 95/98

[Faheem]

Hi, I want to load win 95 and 98 on the same hard drive.I
have partitioned my harddrive(Size 10GB) into 3 logical
drives. C,D Drive has FAT 16 file system each as big as
1.99GB. The rest is formatted in FAT 32. I have loaded
win 95 on disk C,now I want to load win 98 on E drive but
setup always defaults to C drive, how do I load it from E
drive?

[Jeff Richards]

You can load as many operating systems as you wish, but without a boot
manager only one will be accessible. BootitNG is often recommended as a
boot manager, but there are many others. When you have installed and
configured your boot manager, you can install each operating system to it's
own partition, and each one will think that it is installed to drive C.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98
"Faheem" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I want to load win 95 and 98 on the same hard drive.I
> have partitioned my harddrive(Size 10GB) into 3 logical
> drives. C,D Drive has FAT 16 file system each as big as
> 1.99GB. The rest is formatted in FAT 32. I have loaded
> win 95 on disk C,now I want to load win 98 on E drive but
> setup always defaults to C drive, how do I load it from E
> drive?

[I'm Dan \(dg1261\)]

"Faheem" > wrote:
> Hi, I want to load win 95 and 98 on the same hard drive.I
> have partitioned my harddrive(Size 10GB) into 3 logical
> drives. C,D Drive has FAT 16 file system each as big as
> 1.99GB. The rest is formatted in FAT 32. I have loaded
> win 95 on disk C,now I want to load win 98 on E drive but
> setup always defaults to C drive, how do I load it from E
> drive?

You need to give us a lot more information. What did you use to create the
partitions? What kind of partitions did you create? Primary partitions?
Logical (extended) partitions? What's the second partition for? What boot
manager are you planning to use? Once you get both OS's installed, you must
have some idea how you're going to switch between them, so you must have a
boot manager in mind. Many boot managers come with instructions or
tutorials that will provide step-by-step instructions, so have you checked
the documentation?

It sounds like you're not clear on some of the concepts. Partitions do not
have permanent drive letter designations. Your third partition is not
always 'E', that just happens to be what your Win95 is calling it when it
boots. Partitions have no drive letters when your computer is turned
off -- it's the OS being booted that assigns drive letters at *boot time*,
and such labels exist only while that OS is booted and are relevant only to
that OS. So don't say you're installing Win98 on 'E' because that's the
label assigned by your Win95, and Win98 may (will) label them differently.
IOW, your problem is not how to install Win98 on 'E' when it wants to go to
'C', your problem is how to get Win98 to see that third partition as 'C' so
it will install there instead of what Win95 calls 'C'.

I'm not sure I see much sense in multibooting these two OS's, but that
aside, I suspect you're probably going about this the wrong way but can't
tell you where you're going wrong without more information.