Thanks for the info fellas,

Basically, the situation that I have is that I have an application that only runs on Win 98/2000 (unbelievable) and there is no XP patch for this application according to the software company that I contacted. So i thought I would just install Win 98 to run the application.

For arguments sake, I have an 80GB HD. It's partitioned - (20GB - C: and 60GB - D. It's been formatted as NTFS and I have installed Win XP on C:\.

This is where I was going to use Partition Magic because I know I won't be able to install Win 98 on a NTFS partition. My other option was put another HD in and format it to FAT 32 so I
can install Win 98. It seems a little bit extreme though for what I want to do.

So what I was going to do was copy ntdetect.com, ntldr and the boot.ini file from c:\ and put it where I've installed Win 98 and then edit the boot.ini file to point to the correct partitions for XP and 98 because , but once you install win 98 when you boot up it will load only win 98 with no boot options (Is this correct?.)

Anyway that was my master plan, but it's probably best like you said to back up all my important files and just re-format and then install Win 98 1st then XP.

Thanks for the help again.