upgrade from win 2000 to XP problem

[Guest]

Hi,
I have recently upgraded my daughters laptop from win2000 to XP. However at
the start up screen the systems offers both win2000 and XP as options to
start, and as we have tried - both work. This is not a real problem as I have
defaulted the system to select XP with a time out of 3 seconds - but how much
of the memory / performance is affected by having both operating systems in
place?

All help gratefully received!
Mick

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,
I have recently upgraded my daughters laptop from win2000 to XP. However at
the start up screen the systems offers both win2000 and XP as options to
start, and as we have tried - both work. This is not a real problem as I have
defaulted the system to select XP with a time out of 3 seconds - but how much
of the memory / performance is affected by having both operating systems in
place?

All help gratefully received!
Mick

Having both OSs installed does not have any effect whatsoever
on memory or performance. It has some effect on your hard disk
because Win2000 my consume around 2 GBytes of disk space.

 

[cattanack]

Hi,
I have recently upgraded my daughters laptop from win2000 to XP. However at
the start up screen the systems offers both win2000 and XP as options to
start, and as we have tried - both work. This is not a real problem as I have
defaulted the system to select XP with a time out of 3 seconds - but how much
of the memory / performance is affected by having both operating systems in
place?

Memory or performance would not be affected, as the version of windows
you choose to 'boot' from
is the only system that is used.

My guess is what happened is the install went to the 'restore
partition' the new XP install was installed on 'that' (likely the D
partition.

This will eventually not work.

Install XP to the C: drive.

If you need assistance please say so.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,
I have recently upgraded my daughters laptop from win2000 to XP. However at
the start up screen the systems offers both win2000 and XP as options to
start, and as we have tried - both work. This is not a real problem as I have
defaulted the system to select XP with a time out of 3 seconds - but how much
of the memory / performance is affected by having both operating systems in
place?

All help gratefully received!
Mick

You apparently didn't really perform an "upgrade," but rather created a
dual-boot situation. This won't be a problem if you installed WinXP
onto a separate hard drive or partition.

However, if you didn't intentionally create the dual-boot scenario, and
inadvertently installed WinXP onto the same partition as Win2K, your
wisest course of action would be to backup your data, wipe the hard
drive, and start anew. Under normal circumstances, placing two
operating systems in the same partition is a recipe for disaster. A
careful, knowledgeable specialist can do this safely, for a short time,
but the ordinary PC user had better be backing up his data on a daily basis.

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


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