Old News: Dual Boot With XP

[Jerry C. Sanders]

Please tell me again if I can do a dual boot with XP and ME when Me is
already installed on a non-partitioned single HDD--will XP after choosing a
New Install put in the second partition I need for XP?
Thanks much.
Jerry

 

[DMG]

No,
You will need third party software like partition magic

 

[Michael Stevens]

Please tell me again if I can do a dual boot with XP and ME when Me is
already installed on a non-partitioned single HDD--will XP after
choosing a New Install put in the second partition I need for XP?
Thanks much.
Jerry

XP setup can not do non-destructive partitioning. Third party partitioning
software will be needed to shrink the Me partition without losing all the
data.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The simplest way I've found to dual boot between Win9x and WinXP
would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows:

C: Primary FAT32 Win9x/Legacy Apps
D: Extended NTFS WinXP/Modern Apps

Adjust the partition sizes according to your actual hard drive(s)
size and the amount of space you'd like to allocate to each OS and its
applications.

Create the partitions using Win9x's FDISK so you can enable large
disk support (FAT32). (No need for 3rd party partitioning
utilities/boot managers and their frequent complications.)

Install Win9x first, being sure to select "C:\Windows" (or
D:\Windows, if you prefer) when asked for the default Windows
directory. When you subsequently install WinXP, be sure to specify
"D:\Winnt" (or "D:\Windows," "C:\Winnt" as referred/applicable) when
asked for the default Windows directory, to place it in the other
partition. The WinXP installation routine will automatically set up a
Multi-boot menu for you. The default settings for this menu can be
readily edited from within WinXP. NOTE: If you elect to place Win98
on the "D:" drive, you'll _have_ to leave the "C:" drive as FAT32.

This method can be adapted to using 2 physical hard drives by
placing the boot partition (C:, which still must be FAT32) and either
of the operating systems on the Primary Master hard drive, and the
second operating system on the second hard drive.

It is also possible to have a 3rd partition for shared
applications, but it would be necessary for such a partition to be
formatted in the common file format (FAT32). The applications would
also have to be installed into each OS (to ensure proper system file
placement and registry updates), one at a time, but the bulk of the
program files could be located on this common partition. I do not,
however, actually recommend doing this as, if you were to uninstall
such an application from one OS, you may not be able to gracefully
uninstall it from the second OS, having already deleted crucial
installation data during the first uninstall action.

Just about everything you need to know (URLs may wrap):

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/2/10.ASP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/multiboot.asp


Bruce Chambers

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You will need to have a pre-existing partition onto which to
install WinXP. You can either purchase a 3rd party partitioning
utility3rd party partitioning utility, such as
Partition Magic www.powerquest.com, System Commander www.v-com.com
(watch the spelling here, or you'll get a porn site), or BootItNG
(which has a free, fully functional 30-day evaluation version
available for downloading) www.bootitng.com.


Bruce Chambers

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[Alex Nichol]

Please tell me again if I can do a dual boot with XP and ME when Me is
already installed on a non-partitioned single HDD--will XP after choosing a
New Install put in the second partition I need for XP?

*If* you have a second partition already, to select; or free space on
the hard disk, big enough to make one, then yes. Otherwise you will
need third party partitioning software to shrink existing partition(s)
to release enough space. eg Partition Magic, or BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional trial)