Multibooting with XP

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Jerry

I have read quite a few MS documentations regarding this
subject. One advice the documentation provided was we must
install the older OS first, followed by next newer one and
if any, then the latest one.

In an experiment I had first set up a multiple environment
involving 3 OSes, Win98, Windows NT 4 Workstation and
Windows XP, I first have all three OSes bootable via
selecting with the standard Microsoft boot manager. Then
for reasons when I needed to re-install NT4, it did
generated problems. It won't allow XP to boot again
afterwards, athough Win98 was still bootable.

Now my question is with Windows 2000 and XP in a dual-boot
environment, where both Windows2k and XP are sitting in
the same primary boot disk but within their own partition.
After both OSes were installed and with dual-boot already
working, if I re-install Windows 2000, can someone tells
whether this installation process would overwrite some
Windows XP files causing XP to be un-bootable like what I
experienced with NT4+XP case before.

I've read much documentation but apparently it did not
address this scenario. Can someone advise me?

Please.
 
Boot the Windows XP Cd-Rom and from the recovery console run;
fixboot

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


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| I have read quite a few MS documentations regarding this
| subject. One advice the documentation provided was we must
| install the older OS first, followed by next newer one and
| if any, then the latest one.
|
| In an experiment I had first set up a multiple environment
| involving 3 OSes, Win98, Windows NT 4 Workstation and
| Windows XP, I first have all three OSes bootable via
| selecting with the standard Microsoft boot manager. Then
| for reasons when I needed to re-install NT4, it did
| generated problems. It won't allow XP to boot again
| afterwards, athough Win98 was still bootable.
|
| Now my question is with Windows 2000 and XP in a dual-boot
| environment, where both Windows2k and XP are sitting in
| the same primary boot disk but within their own partition.
| After both OSes were installed and with dual-boot already
| working, if I re-install Windows 2000, can someone tells
| whether this installation process would overwrite some
| Windows XP files causing XP to be un-bootable like what I
| experienced with NT4+XP case before.
|
| I've read much documentation but apparently it did not
| address this scenario. Can someone advise me?
|
| Please.
|
 
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