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Newbie Install Woes - NT Server 4.0
As to installing Win2k on a separate partition, yes. Though I don't do it. I got Win98se and Win2k on same C drive, no problems at all. You could format your drive as FAT32, install 98 then install 2000 which will create a dual boot. If security of NTFS is needed you'll need a program such as partition magic to

Possible For This Setup to Work?
It seems to work but I havn't tested the loadlin part as my dual-boot box is at home. The purists will doubtless be reaching for the sick-bags but it might just Scotland | Email h...@met.ed.ac. uk ======P=l=e=a=s=e==N=o=t=e==t=h=e==N=e=w==F=A=X==N=u=m=b=e=r============== -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Dual-Boot Win98/NT Problems - Protection Error
I want to end up with a smooth running dual-boot machine between the two OS's - each on its own separate HD. I am able to autoboot from the CDROM (I use an My machine's basic specs are as follows: Asus P2L97 PII/AGP mainboard w/64megs RAM Pentium II @ 266mHz Adaptec 2940AU Ultra SCSI Quantum Viking SCSI @ C:

Windows 2000/Windows 98 Dual Boot - 1 HD w/C: as NTFS
I had bought Win2KPro just over a year ago, with the intention of setting up a dual-boot arrangement, but had not previously been able to install it due to a problem with my Maxtor (40GB) HD Drivers ((the Win2K installer *used* the HD, but kept reporting that it could not install because there was supposedly no

How to boot win2000 again?
I have installed Windows NT Workstation on a separate partion of 3.2GB HD with Windows 98, I used Partition Magic ver4 w/ Boot Magic to chose which OS i want to boot to... Question 1 Define Dual Booting in laymans term please.. Question 2 How do you turn off the autoplay when you insert a CD.

Need Good Info re Dual Boot Install
Then, you will see the following: sh: /etc/rc: No such file or directory Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: <Enter> erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, You want to dual boot the machine and have already used DOS' fdisk to create a primary partition of 450Mb and installed DOS plus IBM's Boot Manager (or

Set up Cubase on PC w/own drive/own (dual) OS?
peter pet...@nowhere.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hopefully you have XP and Vista in separate partitions on that one HD. I have XP and Vista as dual boot on a single drive. I want to put Vista on a second drive and dual boot, preferably w/o having to select the boot drive from the BIOS.

Redhat 6.2 and Win NT Dual Boot
If you're installing from DOS, win3.x, or win95, you can choose only a clean install, either a dual boot (on a separate partition) or wiping your windows. If you boot directly from the CD, you have ONLY the clean install option, (I couldn't even get a dual boot) regardless of the OS on the HD drive. (Don't ask me.

Processor speeds, heat, battery life, dual boot
The killer is that you can't dual boot to W95. There's no W95 support for your proposed 4 drive striped set. Compare the above to two Deskstar 5s($325) + Promise FastTrak($150) which give R/W 15+MB/sec. and 13GB for $800. It puts one heck of a lot of area under a lot of independently-positionable R/W heads.

Pre-installed XP home-Adding dualboot Win98
Here's my setup: Abit KA7 motherboard w/VIA Apollo KX133 chipset (VT8371 and VT82C686A) AMD Athlon 700 MHz Dual boot w/Win2000 using Grub, separate harddrive for linux 15.3G Maxtor EIDE UDMA ATA66 HD 256Mb Micron RAM Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI16 sound card ATI Xpert2000 32Mb video card The installation was

Dual boot win98 w/ 2 hard drives
And a dual boot system can really come in handy. Good luck! -- John C. Adams jca...@bigfoot.com (512) 963-2046 "Erik W." <pwood...@msn.com> wrote in message I was wondering if I can reformat my HD and partition it for two separate drive letters. Can I put Windows ME on one and Windows NT on the other.

dual booting ME & W2K off separate drives
Install your new drive [w/it's new system], and use a bootdisk to restart the machine, change to the old drive and do a *deltree* on the windows folder--- MAKE Both systems would try to use the same boot file-- same reason you cannot *dual boot* 95 and 98. If the main C-drive breaks down, can I boot up again by

installing RH7 in win98/win2000 dual boot box
Walter Clayton w-clayto...@SPmvpsAM.org microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Hopefully you haven't followed Franko's advice. What he gave you is flat out wrong I have a dual-boot system; W2K (C-drive) & XP(D-drive); on separate disks. I would like to remove my W2K disk and use XP only. Boot.ini is on C:.

Almost ready to take the plunge, experiences needed
Check the MS support knowledge base for W2k, Try article Q183322 or search 'dual boot'. Basically, you will need to make a seperate partition for each OS. Hi all, Is there a way to install Win2K on a separate drive after WinME has already been installed? I keep getting a message to the effect that Windows

FAQ for newsgroup? Plus several questions
Wingman442 -wingman...@yahoo.com ################# Before you go into a dual boot thing, if it's at all possible, set up a separate box. I became tired of dual boot real fast. I had two boxes both w/ dual boot untill one HD crashed. It had 95/FreeBSD The NT/Linux is still alive. Anyway, the point is if you have the

Dual Booting NT & 98
Before I delve to far into this: At the present I have Win98SE on a PII 500mhz w/128mb ram, a 20gb hd partitioned into 4 equal 5gb's. I want to clear my f:\ and install XP Pro on it and dual boot. The XP Pro cd I have is an OEM version. The question I have is: Can I install the XP OEM version on f:\ without

Optimal partitioning for 2 HD dual-boot setup?
See below re the original post from 11/2/01: I recently installed WinXP in a dual boot configuration on a separate partition and installed WPOffice 2000. 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.

Newbie trying Red Hat 7.0 w/boot question - TIA
Trappist rocco_stanzi...@stream.com microsoft public mshardware product I run Linux on a separate HD. XP sees this drive and tries to write to it, and hoses the ext2fs filesystem but good. I reinstalled Linux 4 times before I figured it out. Just disabled the drive in the Device Manager, and all is well.

Dual Boot w/ Win 98se after installing Win2K in Primary Partition
But if you do eventually need to dual boot, I've usually done it the other way 'round. Had Win98 installed, then added XP, no problem. or have other data partitions, etc., some start w/ a clean HD, others one or more OS's already installed, some are willing to use a boot manager, others not, etc.,

Dual Boot
Every other piece of hardware works perfectly (sound, video, cd-rom, etc) Previously, I had Win 98 (still do, unfortunately - dual boot) and networked both my 'puters My network is a Netgear 10/100 "network in a box", the system with Linux is a PII 300 w/ 192meg RAM and 10g HD (Win is on a separate 5g).