Windows 98SE / XP system
Posted: December 28th, 2023, 4:52 pm
There's at least a couple of folks here who seem to like keeping old systems around, so thought I'd ask here before trying to unscramble the mass of info out on the interweb ...
I've got an old desktop that's been gathering dust for some years that I've decided to finally do something about. It started off as a Windows 98SE analogue video editing box, for editing footage filmed on video Hi8 with final results going onto VHS, using a Pinnacle DV500 capture and effects card and Adobe Premiere 5.
Pretty much everything has been changed over the years, inc. the motherboard & CPU, with the only original things now being the graphics card (a Matrox Millennium G400), the 1.44MB floppy drive and the midi tower case! It also got upgraded to Windows XP Pro, which put paid to the DV500 as the software for that only worked up to Win 2000, but by then my video editing days were a past hobby anyway.
So, the current configuration is a KT3 Ultra2 motherboard hosting a 1.1.GHz Athlon, 1792MB of memory, the G400, the usual other stuff (10/100 Ethernet, DVD writer, audio card, USB 2, etc) -- and two IDE HDDs, one 120GB and the other 160GB. (The DV500 is in the cupboard).
So......what I would like to do, ideally, is configure it to a dual boot Windows 98SE / XP pro system, bunging the DV500 back in for use under 98SE.
The problem, methinks, is the HDDs, both in size and format for 98SE, and I'm getting confused as to what's possible and what's not. It seems like I'll have to have the two OSs on separate disks, with 98SE on one formatted FAT32 and XP on the other formatted NTFS? Or are there other choices?
I've got an old desktop that's been gathering dust for some years that I've decided to finally do something about. It started off as a Windows 98SE analogue video editing box, for editing footage filmed on video Hi8 with final results going onto VHS, using a Pinnacle DV500 capture and effects card and Adobe Premiere 5.
Pretty much everything has been changed over the years, inc. the motherboard & CPU, with the only original things now being the graphics card (a Matrox Millennium G400), the 1.44MB floppy drive and the midi tower case! It also got upgraded to Windows XP Pro, which put paid to the DV500 as the software for that only worked up to Win 2000, but by then my video editing days were a past hobby anyway.
So, the current configuration is a KT3 Ultra2 motherboard hosting a 1.1.GHz Athlon, 1792MB of memory, the G400, the usual other stuff (10/100 Ethernet, DVD writer, audio card, USB 2, etc) -- and two IDE HDDs, one 120GB and the other 160GB. (The DV500 is in the cupboard).
So......what I would like to do, ideally, is configure it to a dual boot Windows 98SE / XP pro system, bunging the DV500 back in for use under 98SE.
The problem, methinks, is the HDDs, both in size and format for 98SE, and I'm getting confused as to what's possible and what's not. It seems like I'll have to have the two OSs on separate disks, with 98SE on one formatted FAT32 and XP on the other formatted NTFS? Or are there other choices?