Can anyone explain how I can dual boot my computer please.????


Presently it runs windows XP Pro and the disk is formatted NTFS

I want to add either WIN 98 or WIN 2000 Pro so I think I will need to
create a non NTFS disk partition firstly ???


Ideally want it to ask me which OS to run when I boot it.

Thanks

 

Windows 98 wont work as it cant see NTFS on the local drive.

Windows 2000 is ok though.

this may help you.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306559

 

Thanks MIke,

Thats exactly what I need

 

you can dual boot 98 off anotehr partition, but the 98 bootup wont see the NTFS partition.

that might not be such a problem for you tho depending on what youre trying to acheive

 

Id like to know , can you run 2 msn messenger log ins at the same time please

 

fancy talking to yourself do you

yes you can,, but not the same logins and i think you need two different versions of msn

 

well no shit cum bucket

where can you get old versions of msn from ? and does anyone know for sure except this welsh slapper giving me grief

 

http://www.download.com/MSN-Messenge...ml?tag=lst-0-4

http://www.download.com/3405-2150_4-5163842.html

there you go cum bucket

 

if you download messenger plus you can have two instances of the latest messenger logged in simultaneously

 

LINKY MY CHINKY

 

http://www.msgpluslive.net/

 

Schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

 

another option is microsoft virtual machine, you can download a copy from microsoft for free, and it emulates in every way a dos, 3.1, 95, 98, 2K or XP. IIRC it even comes as part of vista ...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...c/default.mspx

 

good point dave.

another one is VMWARE which is the same deal as microsoft VM, but it's been around for donkeys years, and is probably far better

VMWARE would be the easiest way to go i think

 

Can post you a copy of VMware if required

 

The answer to your question is run 2 hard drives one loaded with 98 and other with xp ....i have a tower in front of me now with this done only it is me on one and xp on other.....

when you power up it will give you the option of which on to boot.......

PS - me hard drive is fat32 and xp hard drive is ntfs ......but you could run xp on fat32 so you can share info between the 2 drives

 

To dual boot you'll need a seperate partition and then just need to edit the boot.ini on the xp/2000 partition

 

All sorted now thanks everyone