2000 and 98, can it be done?

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I have Win98 installed on my comp now, I really want to upgrade to Win 2000 but I fear losing my ability to play numerous games and run other programs. Is there a way to emulate the 98 environment on 2000 or am I just better off having both 98 and 2000 installed at the same time.
 
Most games run in both Windows 98 and Windows 2000. The exception would be old dos games that don't run in 2000.

Also - you can do a 2 operating system installation with Windows 2000 real easily, so if you want to be totally safe a dual installation should not be a problem unless you are really low on disk space.
 
Windows 2000 with the latest service pack has the ability to emulate other versions of Windows when running a program, but this doesn't really work 100%, especially for games

Any new game will work fine under Windows 2000, it's only the old ones you need to be concerned about
 
>Also - you can do a 2 operating system installation with >Windows 2000 real easily, so if you want to be totally safe a >dual installation should not be a problem unless you are really >low on disk space.


Would you recommend a partition? Should I uninstall Win98 first?
 
Windows 9x likes to be the first thing on a drive-- from what I've read it has a tendency to overwrite parts of an existing OS

It should be OK to install 2000/XP after 9x is already installed

You'll need to partition it which you can do with things like Partition Magic, or the old fashion way of fdisk which will trash everything on the drive (but maybe its time for spring cleaning anyway, hehe)

If you go NT/2000 I recommend choosing NTFS as the file system. It's better :) The drawback is that you won't be able to access those 'drives' when booted into 9x. But you can at least keep the OS itself and other stuff on the NTFS partition and use the FAT32 drives for stuff that you want to access from either installation.
 
i used to install win 98 and then under win98 put in the win2k disk
and install it on a second partition and it would create a dual boot no sweat ..
when it comes to running and playing games . to hell with it .. i run every damn just perfect on win2k
hell win2k is my sole OS right now beside linux ..
wink2 utilizes my 1 gb of ram just prefect i have it all loaded in ram directly and i am the one who hits the new levels the first on CS the first b4 the rest hehehe
okay so i don;t have a whopping p4 2.2 i am still faster on CS hehehe
win2k can run any game . MS OS'es i will never use again
every drokking MS OS cept win2k
the only shit that annoys me alittle is all those security and service packs but i am on cable now so that is no prob ..
if you are on dailup forget using win2k you willbe a drokking target
.
 
NTFS is faster and more efficient and more secure -- but 9x/ME can't read it
 
The difference in speed isn't big enough to base your decision solely on that


NTFS is faster at finding fragmented files and very large files, but on a defragmented drive, FAT32 is marginally faster

It's not designed for pure speed, it's designed for security and efficiency
 
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