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  • Installing XP on a Dual-Boot System

    Dumb question, I know but if I upgraded my win 98 to XP on a dual-boot system with Win 2000 would everything remain intact? As in, it would not muck up my Win2000 system.

  • #2
    I'm not sure on the details so wait untill someone better suited to that answers but yes your 2k boot could suffer badly. :smokin:
    <center>:cheers:</center>

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    • #3
      Take a look at System Commander at www.v-com.com Their program allows over 100 Operating systems to boot up, all depending on size of hard drive. Pluse each one that boots is designed to become the active partition. The menu comes first during boot up and you pick and choose which OS to boot into. When that is chosen, that partition that becomes your choice is set as active and boots. After boot, all trace of System commander is gone as it does not Stay Resident. The follwowing I cut and pasted into this message from the System Commander folder in the "readme.txt" ...

      Key Benefits

      * Management of up to 100+ different operating systems:
      up to 32 FAT compatible OSes in one partition
      up to 56 primary partitions on up to 14 drives
      up to 16 OSes in logical partitions
      up to 4 OSes which must boot through a non standard MBR

      * Special diskette drive support
      boot from A: or B: even if diskette booting is turned off in
      your BIOS setup.

      * Menu selections are offered before any operating system runs

      * Automatic management of hidden system files and configuration
      files such as AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, BOOT.INI, etc.

      * Remembers the last selection made

      * Choose from a number of unique sound effects when System
      Commander's menu appears

      * Select a time-out period to automatically make a selection

      * Automatically saves newly installed OS versions

      * View partition information and change bootable status

      * Master Boot Record and MultiFAT partition boot record virus
      detection and repair

      * View and edit files such as CONFIG and AUTOEXEC at boot time


      Technical Highlights

      * Fully compatible with Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP,
      Linux, OS/2 Warp, NetWare, Solaris, other Unix variants, DOS
      and all other PC compatible OSes

      * Can be installed into any standard FAT, FAT32 or NTFS

      Cheers!

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      • #4
        Put Win XP on a seperate partition.

        Change your BOOT.INI file to include XP when you install it.

        It should look something like this :

        [boot loader]
        timeout=30
        default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOW S
        [operating systems]
        multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows 2000"
        multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

        You will just need to add, "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micr osoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect", and change your default to XP if you want to. You can also lower the timeout to whatever you like.

        Good Luck.

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        • #5
          It is possible to do but I highly recommend you dont. I have tried and it really messes things up. It's better to just reinstall xp clean on a new partition

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