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New W2K pc adding new HD and wish to add XP
I have a portable USB2.0 HD that I use for backups etc and would like to have an install of XP Pro on it for emergency purposes. pages explaining XP PA, how it works & the voting system used: http://kadaitcha.ath.cx/articles/activation.aspx is one. I used dual boot to test beta s/w such as MS Updates ;) -- Paul.

Dual boot Win98 and NT 4 partitioning question.
"Roy W. Jordan, Jr." wrote: I recently installed WinXP in a dual boot configuration on a separate partition and installed WPOffice 2000. Everything seemed to work I was able to save the files to the HD of my machine. There is no problem saving to the file server using MS Word 2000 in this same set up w/ WinXP.

What file controls Workbench color settings?
With what you're talking about, though, I would recommend putting a second hard drive on a lone controller and placing a RAMx2 pagefile (the ONLY page file) on BTW I did not mean to say use separate drives, I meant to say I don't recommend dual booting 2 Windows OS's, period, and that for me at least we have

Dual Boot Installation to External HD
Also, this disk is the sole HD on the Secondary IDE ... and I am able to boot off of this disk w/ NT (both w/ dual-boot & single-boot setups) as well as Solaris .... 1st IDE Controller ide@1 = 2nd IDE Controller That's correct (unless you've got two separate ATA/IDE controllers rather than a dual controller chip,

Advice on Win2K Pro /w Ka7 and Matrox G400
So do you think the HD churn I and others notice in w2k (much more than in 98) is just a result of insufficient ram? BTW I did not mean to say use separate drives, I meant to say I don't recommend dual booting 2 Windows OS's, period, and that for me at least we have reached the point where there's not enough

Dual Boot w/ Win 98se after installing Win2K in Primary Partition
Created a naked ext3 (linux journalling) 10G filesystem as a virtual machine in VMWare XP, and boot an XP HD resident iso image of Knoppix as a "live CD" so I can work on remastering Knoppix w/out having an actual ext3 partition available on the laptop. Works surprisingly well. The General's right though,

Yet another Dual Boot question
Given that you can pick up older smaller hard drives for peanuts, have you considered buying a couple, mounting them in removable carriers c/w operating THe thing that holds me back is that I refuse to install Office, unless each version is in a separate bootable partition. All my systems are already dual boot.

Adding 2nd HD for audio
You need to put the installation onto separate partitions, a separate drive is not needed, so partition what you want. Should I install as a dual boot, using 2 diff HD's? I'm hesistate to just upgrade, since xp said it had a problem w/ my HD controller/motherboard (MSI K266T, bios date 3-2001) and that it would

Linux+windows 98+NT4 Dual Booting
Also, do I need separate partitions if I decide to install Windows 2000 on top of Win ME for a dual boot OS? If so, how should the sizes of partitions be? My HD will be 20G. Thanks for the help. The fragmentation argument is a moot point if you are already using FAT32 or NTFS. Dual boot machines typically install

Boot.ini - what does it say in a dual-boot win9x/XP situation
Fine but that just combined the 2 drive, essentially into 1 280 gig drive w/1 XP os. I had files I wanted stuff from but didn't want to inherit all the settings, a dual-boot, which will not serve your purpose. Do a google search for switches made for making an easy way to make separate drives primary boot devices.

Dual boot (Solaris/NT) problem...
I suggest keeping both versions in separate folders. I have problems running the xl95 & xl97 on the Vista machine even tho I installed in order. Although I'm not quite sure how to do this, I may partition my 320 hd into dual boot xp & vista, putting the older versions on the xp partition.

Dual Boot - Ubuntu - XP
I'd like to set up a WinXP/Red Hat dual boot, so I'm looking for at least a 30GB HD but 20GB might suffice (why does 20GB seem so little? Presario 2720US: PIII-M 1.2GHz w/512KB cache, separate DVD and CDRW drives, 20GB, 256MB PC133, dedicated 8MB ATI Radeon, 15" 1024x768 native res, WinXP Home, $1199 "open box"

Powerbook 1400c - 1GB HD - 96MB Ram
I'm thinking that in order for me to have optimal HD performance, I should put them on separate channels/ribbons connecting the HD's to the ATA100 drive on the Same IDE chain and my CDR/W drive as a Master on my 2nd hard drive and my 2nd hard drive as a slave to it which I also use as a dual boot with WinXP.

Dual Boot, How?
In this case, your suggestion won't work, as the jumpers need to be switched for separate hard drive to load up. Yes, you can make both drive a bootable drive (ie primary partiton, so to speak, with their own boot loaders), but the physical setup inside the tower needs to be changed from master to slave,

Missing OSR5 OS after dual boot w/ NT install
Kuan ksgo...@hotmail.com microsoft public win2000 setup 2-ead from Windows 2000 Professional setup file that it doesn't matter if Win2K or Win98 is installed first if I wish to install dual boot for these 2 system. I have done the following: 1. partitioned my HD into 2 separate volumes (C: & D:), 2. installed

Wanted dual boot - I think?
My intention was to use the 2nd HDD as a RAID-1 device, probably w/ FastTrak100 or similar. As a software developer, I want the multiple OS for testing and the RAID-1 particularly it is useful for dual or even triple HD and triple OS booting (I use it to boot win98se, nt4 and linux from three separate drives).

HD recording/MIDI advice needed
Also, when I try to dual boot, first I'm prompted to put a cd in the drive (i did the cd install because hd space is running low. If you have separate directories for the Windows you run under OS and the normal M$ Windows, install it twice to make sure that the system directory of the windows you are using has

2 OS's on one HD
I do not recommend unplugging a hard drive to do your switching. You have two options. Do not use the dual-boot (LILO), but when you want to boot into a Linux Multi tasking under Deskview was a pain and using separate machines with Lantastic was much better. Win 95 with its dos box and multi tasking was a great

Dual Boot
I read from Windows 2000 Professional setup file that it doesn't matter if Win2K or Win98 is installed first if I wish to install dual boot for these 2 system. I have done the following: 1. partitioned my HD into 2 separate volumes (C: & D:), 2. installed Windows 2000 Professional on C: drive first, 3.

Adding Warp to a Win 95 Setup
Plus, installing Linux on a separate drive reduces the risk of damaging your Windoze installation. It's hard to get a new HD less that 40Gb these days, I'd think it could dual boot just with a 2GB HDD. With lots more windows apps and linux desktops, a 6.4GB HDD should be ok. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to