zBoot Manager Installation Wizard
Situation:
I currently have two partitions in my hard disk, one is a primary
partition C: in which I have installed Windows 98, the other one is dos extended
partition in which I have two logic drivers ( D:, E:). Now I want to install
Windows 2000 to D: .
Installation steps:
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Create a DOS startup floppy disk. If you have one DOS startup floppy
disk, skip this step.
You can use the starting floppy disk of Windows 98/Me etc. If you
hard disk is bigger than 8G, you should not use the DOS 6.0 or older version
since they can't support the big disk. One easy way to do this is to make a
start-up disk from Windows, Control Panel-->Add/Remove Program--> Make
startup disk. You can also download a Windows
98 boot disk here. Insert a floppy disk to A: and run it , it will
automatically create a bootable floppy disk.
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Copy
ZBOOT.EXE
to your startup floppy disk, and restart your computer with
that Disk. And then run zBoot Manager: A:\>zboot <ENTER>. At this
time, it will check your hard disk, and read your current partition
information. When you see the Main Menu, use Disk tools->Backup current
MBR function to save your current MBR to a file. Obviously, you'd better
save it to your floppy disk.
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From Main Menu, select "step 1 setup partition list". You can
now see your current partition list, now there should have 3 partitions,
one is your C: and the other two are D: and E:. Since you don't need to add new
partitions at this time, simply press <ESC> to return to Main Menu.
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Form Main Menu, select "Step 2 setup boot menu". There are
three windows here, you can use <TAB> to switch among them. In the
first window, you can find a menu item "operating system 1", it is
your current system. Press <R> key to rename it to "Windows
98". The window below will list the partitions of Windows 98 at
this time. Now, we should add another system. In the first window, press <INS> to add a new system,
input a name, i.e. Windows 2000, use cursor keys to highlight it and use <TAB> to
switch to the window below. Then Press <INS> to add partitions from
the partition list, now add the 2nd
partition and the 3rd partition to Windows
2000. In the windows below, highlight the 1st one and press <SPACE> key to set the first one bootable. Press
<ESC> to return to Main Menu
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Form Main Menu, select "Step 3 Install
zBoot Manager to hard
disk" to actually install it. Then remove your floppy disk and restart
your computer. You will see a boot menu with two menu items. one is
"windows 98" the other one is "Windows 2000". You can
select "Windows 98", it will boot your windows 98 as before. (You
can restore your MBR if there are some errors). If your current system works
well, restart your computer and select "Windows 2000". Since you have not installed it, it
will display "OS loading Error!", now restart your computer with
CD-ROM or Floppy disk to install Windows 2000. Since at the last step, you
only select last two partitions for Windows 2000, your old D: will be C: at
this time, and your old E: will be D: now. You can check it with
"dir c:" command. Now, you can install windows 2000 to C:
(actually it is your D: in system Win98) as usual.
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After you install Windows 2000, the boot menu will disappear, you just
need to run zBoot again and use "step 3 Install zBoot manger to hard
disk" again. Now remove the floppy disk and restart your
computer.
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Now you have already two operating systems in your hard disk. Enjoy
it!!!
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