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Window Xp Dual Boot How To - Page 1
(or should I say duel booting Windows XP)
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Dual Boot Windows XP Steps:
Windows XP Support Page.
WinXpFix.com

Dual Boot Windows XP Support Page1: Question, will Windows Xp allow me to dual boot between Windows~Me and Windows~XP. I would love to have both operating systems on my system so I can chose which one I want to use at boot time.

The answer is yes, I've installed Windows~XP on my 2nd HDD and left Win Me on the primary 1st HDD and everything is working great. It will also work just fine if you have Windows~ME on one partition and Windows~XP on the other partition on the same HDD.

A dual-boot or multiboot installation is an installation of Windows that leaves another operating system intact on your computer. When you start your computer, you can decide which operating system to run. In order to keep the versions of Windows separate, you install each in a separate partition.

Windows Setup Wizard can create a new partition if your hard disk has unused, unpartitioned space. It can install Windows XP into this new partition, leaving your existing operating system intact. You do not need to use a third-party partitioning program.

But, you may want to get a third-party partitioning program like PartitionMagic or BootIt NG to adjust the sizes of your existing partitions to make space for Windows XP. It's up to you. WinXpFix.com

 

 

Before you use the multibooting feature, you should consider the tradeoffs: each of the operating system (OS) uses valuable disk space, and file system compatibility can be very complex if you want to run Windows XP on one partition and an earlier OS on another partition. In addition, dynamic disk format introduced in Windows 2000 does not work with earlier operating systems. However, multibooting capabilities are a valuable feature providing the single-machine flexibility to run multiple operating systems.

Before you install Windows XP and an earlier version on the same machine, you must prepare your hard disk with different partitions.

When installing Windows on a new or reformatted hard disk, the Setup program typically does not partition your hard disk automatically. To create multiple partitions, choose Advanced Options during Setup and follow the instructions to create and name multiple partitions. You can also create partitions using Fdisk.

You can divide your hard disk into multiple partitions, and each partition can function as a separate logical drive. For example, logical drives C: and D: can both exist on the same hard disk, but function as separate disks. You should install each operating system on a different partition. Then install applications on the same partition as the operating system with which you run them. If an application is used with two different operating systems, install copies on both partitions. Placing each operating system in a separate partition ensures that it will not overwrite crucial files used by the other OS.

A basic disk can contain up to four partitions. Each partition can be formatted for use by a file system, such as FAT32 or NTFS.

In general, you should always install the most recent OS last. In this case, you should install Windows 2000 and then install Windows XP.

You can set up your computer so that it has multiple installations of Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional. But, you must use a different computer name for each installation if the computer participates in a Windows 2000 Server domain. Because a unique security identifier (SID) is used for each installation of Windows XP on a domain, the computer name for each installation must be unique—even for multiple installations on the same computer. WinXpFix.com

 

Related: how to dual boot windows xp and windows 7

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Checklist:
To configure your computer containing Windows 2000 and Windows XP, fallow these following guidelines:

* Backup your data, and make some booting disks/startup disks. Get all the software/install CDs you'll need now.

* You should Install each operating system on a separate drive or disk partition.

* Install Windows XP after you have installed Windows 2000.

* When you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), by default, the installation is placed on a partition on which no other operating system is located. You can specify a partition during Setup.

*Don’t install Windows XP on a compressed drive unless the drive was compressed with the NTFS file system compression feature.

* On any partition where you perform a new installation of Windows XP you will need to reinstall any programs, such as word processing or e-mail software, after your Setup is completed.

* Install your programs used by each operating system on the partition with that system. If you want your programs to run with multiple operating systems, you need to install separate copies of the programs in each of the operating system partitions.

* If your computer is on a Windows 2000 Server domain, each installation of Windows XP on that computer must have a different computer name.

 

 

Computers that have Windows 95, 98 (or Windows Me) and Windows XP:

* Windows 95, 98 or Windows Me must be installed on a basic disk on a partition formatted with FAT or FAT32. If Windows 98 or Windows Me is not installed on the system partition, which is almost always the first partition on the disk, the system partition must also be formatted with FAT or FAT32. (For Windows 95 OSR2, FAT32 may be used.) If Windows 95 is not installed on the system partition, which is almost always the first partition on the disk, the system partition must also be formatted with FAT (or FAT32 for Windows 95 OSR2).

* Compressed DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes won’t be available while you are running Windows XP. It is not necessary to uncompress DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes that you will access only with Windows 98.

* Remember Windows XP must be installed last. Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.

Note: On a dual-boot system with Windows NT or Windows 3.1, you can't use FAT32 for your data partition, because Windows NT and Windows 3.1 don't support FAT32 (as Windows 2000, Me, 98, and XP do). On a dual-boot system with Windows Me or 9x, you can't use an NTFS partition for your data partition, since these versions of Windows can't read it.

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