Win XP Home install questions

[GTT]

Have decided to try out Win XP and would like input on best way to
accomplish following

Would like to set up on seperate partition with dual boot


System info AMD Athlon 1700
Memory 256
Hard Drive 60 g partitioned to C & D. No programs on D just data and
backed up portions of old computer drive. Free space on D 27G

Questions
Can Xp be installed on the D drive for the dual boot?
Would I be better to add a second hard drive for the XP to use?
Will I need to reload all programs onto the partition or drive
containin XP to run under XP?
Will XP interfere with my LAN where the second computer is using
Wingate a proxy software program allowing it to access internet. I
believe Wingate 3.0 only works with Win 95/98 but not sure.

 

[purplehaz]

See below.....

Have decided to try out Win XP and would like input on best way to
accomplish following

Would like to set up on seperate partition with dual boot


System info AMD Athlon 1700
Memory 256
Hard Drive 60 g partitioned to C & D. No programs on D just data and
backed up portions of old computer drive. Free space on D 27G

Questions
Can Xp be installed on the D drive for the dual boot?

Yes boot to the xp cd and follow the instructions. XP will setup the dual
boot for you.

Would I be better to add a second hard drive for the XP to use?

Either way works just the same.

Will I need to reload all programs onto the partition or drive
containin XP to run under XP?
Yes.

Will XP interfere with my LAN where the second computer is using
Wingate a proxy software program allowing it to access internet. I
believe Wingate 3.0 only works with Win 95/98 but not sure.

Yes, but xp has it own Internet Connection Sharing software, so wingate is
no longer needed. Or get a router/firewall to share the connection.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Have decided to try out Win XP and would like input on best way to
accomplish following

Would like to set up on seperate partition with dual boot


System info AMD Athlon 1700
Memory 256
Hard Drive 60 g partitioned to C & D. No programs on D just data and
backed up portions of old computer drive. Free space on D 27G

Questions
Can Xp be installed on the D drive for the dual boot?

Yes. Run the XP CD from your existing system on C:. Enter Install;
change Upgrade to New Install and when it asks for confirmation where,
point it at D: That will automatically install an XP Dual boot -
initial boot still being to C:

Would I be better to add a second hard drive for the XP to use?

I see no reason to, given you have plenty of space
One point though - you have 30 days before you *have* to activate XP.
Use most of them, so you can decide whether to carry on with it (and
activate) or remove it and have the copy easily free for another machine

Will I need to reload all programs onto the partition or drive
containin XP to run under XP?

You will need to reinstall them (unless you were to do an Upgrade) so as
to have the registry entries and the files programs are inclined to
install in the Windows folder. But there is no reason why you should
not do the install as a custom one into the folder you used before, on
C: so that you only have one copy of main program files (you will have a
'Program Files' folder in each partition)

Will XP interfere with my LAN where the second computer is using
Wingate a proxy software program allowing it to access internet. I
believe Wingate 3.0 only works with Win 95/98 but not sure.

I don't know how it gets on with Wingate - probably not well. But XP
includes Internet Connection Sharing to allow other machines on a LAN to
share its Internet connection in just the same way

 

[GTT]

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:07:22 +0000, Alex Nichol

Thanks Alex

Not sure I understand this part of your reply, specifically "But there
is no reason why you should not do the install as a custom one into
the folder you used before, on C: so that you only have one copy of
main program files (you will have a 'Program Files' folder in each
partition)"

Are you saying to do a custom install of Win XP on the same partition
I have Win 98 so that I don't have to reload my programs?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Not sure I understand this part of your reply, specifically "But there
is no reason why you should not do the install as a custom one into
the folder you used before, on C: so that you only have one copy of
main program files (you will have a 'Program Files' folder in each
partition)"

Are you saying to do a custom install of Win XP on the same partition
I have Win 98 so that I don't have to reload my programs?

No. When you install a program - eg Office. take the option that is
almost always given for a Custom install, and there choose a different
place for it to install its files - on the other partition. My Office is
not a complete installation (I don't have Outlook installed) but I have
230 MB of it on my E: drive, and only 21 for it in C:\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared