[Klomplex]

I've just hooked up another hard drive to my system which has Windows 98SE on it. My primary OS is winxp. At startup, I can press F10 and choose which hard drive to boot from. When I do this it shows the win98se splash screen for a few seconds, after which I get this message:

"Insufficient memory to initialize windows. Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary files from your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files, and restart your computer."

And I know that everything's fine with the drive and OS itself because it was the drive I was using on an old Pentium 2 and it worked no problem. So to summarize:

1. Plugged in new drive
2. Booted to winxp, everything fine, drive shows up.
3. Restarted computer
4. Booted to drive with win98se on it.
5. Got an error message.

Was there a step I missed somewhere along the way? I've never tried multibooting before. Any help is appreciated.

[kiwiguy]

Several problems:

Win98 needs a special patch to run with that much RAM, anything over 512 MB will cause a problem.

You have to install Win98 on the hardware on which you are running it on now for it to be reliable, its presently seeing all the wrong hardware that will not match the drivers.

But your main problem is the first issue
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912