that works just fine MrA.
the main problem is using an app to select which to boot on reset, a so called bootloader , you could just add the new win98se to the current xp bootfile but i preferXOSL for its gui and mouse support.
http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm
as per zing's bit, you might try this to get safe read only access
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...Windows98.html