duel boot

[Guest]

How do I partition a space on my drive and set up a duel boot system?
I AM A N00b

 

[Jay]

How do I partition a space on my drive and set up a duel boot system?

You want your partitions to draw pistols at dawn!? ;-)

I AM A N00b

Have a look here

Jay

 

[Kelly]

Bing - Boot It Next Generation
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

Added info:

How to Install W2K to its own partition. Use a 98 Startup disk and run
WINNT.EXE from the I386 directory. After 2K is installed, boot with the XP
CD and at the Setup/Repair screen, choose Repair. In Recovery Console, use
the following commands:

1) FIXBOOT, answer Yes
2) CD \
3) ATTRIB -H NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -S NTLDR
5) ATTRIB -R NTLDR
6) ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
7) ATTRIB -S NTDETEC.COM
8) ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
9) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
10) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

In Steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.

How to Install W2K to its Own Partition after installing XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_2k.htm

How to Install Windows 98 after Installing Windows XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm


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[Alex Nichol]

How do I partition a space on my drive and set up a duel boot system?
I AM A N00b

You need to start with the earlier system - presuming that this is two
versions of Windows. Say a Win98, installed in its own partition, with
either a separate Primary one of adequate size for XP, or a free space
in which one can be made. If your 98 were occupying the whole disk, you
would either have to start over, using FDISK to delete everything and
then make a new suitable size partition for Win98 and install it, or use
some third party Partition manager to shrink the Win98 one.


Then you boot the 98 and run the XP CD from it (an Upgrade one - no
point spending extra money on a Full, and the 'OEM' ones will not work
for this). Enter install, change Upgrade to New install, then when it
asks where, hit ESC so you can either select free space and make a new
partition in it to use, or select a different existing partition from
the 98 one. Carry on and it sets up the dual boot (initially starting
in the 98 partition, so be careful not to damage the files there by say
doing a SYS C: on it)

 

[Jim Macklin]

To Mobius,
Dual means two, duel means a fight.


message | MOBIUS wrote:
|
| >How do I partition a space on my drive and set up a duel
boot system?
| >I AM A N00b
|
| You need to start with the earlier system - presuming
that this is two
| versions of Windows. Say a Win98, installed in its own
partition, with
| either a separate Primary one of adequate size for XP, or
a free space
| in which one can be made. If your 98 were occupying the
whole disk, you
| would either have to start over, using FDISK to delete
everything and
| then make a new suitable size partition for Win98 and
install it, or use
| some third party Partition manager to shrink the Win98
one.
|
|
| Then you boot the 98 and run the XP CD from it (an Upgrade
one - no
| point spending extra money on a Full, and the 'OEM' ones
will not work
| for this). Enter install, change Upgrade to New install,
then when it
| asks where, hit ESC so you can either select free space
and make a new
| partition in it to use, or select a different existing
partition from
| the 98 one. Carry on and it sets up the dual boot
(initially starting
| in the 98 partition, so be careful not to damage the files
there by say
| doing a SYS C: on it)
|
|
| --
| Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
| Bournemouth, U.K. (e-mail address removed)8E8L.org (remove the D8
bit)

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Multibooting with Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/multiboot.asp

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