98 or 2000?

[Watrskr41]

I have WindowsME and I hate it. Always crashing, always "busy", and I wanna build a dual boot system with 98 or 2000. What do you guys recommend? And how would I go about installing both Operating systems?

 

[Ecliptic]

Well, what I did was partition the harddrive into 2 parts. First (this is important), install 98 on drive c. When that is all done and set up, install win2000 in drive d. 2000 will detect the other OS and and set up the dual boot options for you at boot-time automatically. If you need more details, just ask!
When I first did this, I installed 2000 first and then 98. The problem was that 98 did not detect 2000 and so I couldn't dualboot. What a mistake! Had to do it all over.

Hope this helps. If you wanna buy 98, I have a OEM copy still shrink wrapped. All legal and brand new. Giveme an offer.

 

[jonnyGURU]

What will your usage be?

2000 is primarily a Workstation/Server OS. I see little need for it on a stand alone machine.

Have to admit that I'm using ME with no problem whatsoever. Do you think you might have a hardware problem?

Of course, 98 is sleeker than ME, but ME really shines where it counts.

 

[urbantechie]

You have no reason to stay with 98. Win2k or bust!

 

[han888]

win2k

 

[BuckMaster]

I'm running Win2000. Just make sure your hardware will support Win2000 if you go that route. I did have a duel boot with Win98 and Win 2000. But came into problems down the line. So I reformatted and went with 2000. Very Stable. But I also liked Win 98 too.

 

[danii8]

Install win98 c:
then install win2k in differnt partition like d:

 

[jonnyGURU]

Wow. You guys have stability issues with 98/ME??

Must have some defective hardware or some flaky 3rd party software in the mix. I never have a problem.

Besides, if I need server software I use Linux.

 

[josphstalinator]

use partition magic to partition your hard drive and you wont have to reinstal 98 or me.

i have also found winMe to be more unstable than 98 but there are features that i like and i dont plan on going back.

but for those of you that do plan on going back to 98 i hope you have a ghost image of your 98 setup. its so much easier to instal from a ghost image than going through a reformat and reinstalling everything

 

[easternerd]

hi there,
According to me ,There is no way ahead of win2K
So get it and run it ,its the Pride of the Pc Holder.
Oh ! and for your second question i have written an excellent
tutorial some whre in this forum ...Long.......

 

[Gatsby]

I personally love my win2k system. Its stable and only twice has it had something funky go wrong with it.

Gatsby

 

[abracadabra1]

do a 98/2000 dual boot. you won't regret it.
i guarantee you'll be in 2000 90% of the time doing everything you do, and switch back to 98 for that occasional game or 2.