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Dual Boot Win98se & XP
Now to your first question, here is the method outlined in the Win95 Resource Kit: You can install Windows 95 to dual boot with Windows NT on a computer. This section provides some notes for installing Windows 95 with Windows NT. Important In order to take advantage of the Windows 95 dual-boot capabilities,

Dual boot WinXP+Vista
I have been trying to use GRUB to dual boot Windows 2000 and redhat 9. Both OSs have their own hard drives. Its a master slave configuration. For some strange reason Win2k will only install on the primary. I am trying to use a NTFS partition for windows and letting redhat auto create its own partitions.

Reinstall Windows
Hello RC Thank you for getting back to me on my dual-boot issue. By installer, I did mean Windows 2000 setup. According to my friend, the installation of Windows 2000 on his macihine is on the same partition (FAT32) as Windows 98. This is a severe NO-NO! A few posters have reported success with this arrangement,

Reinstall Windows
1) Does a recovery reinstallation of 98 qualify for upgrade? ...you must be careful not to format the boot partition (although WinXP may be installed on any drive, the boot files will still be housed on the boot partition... 2) Can I reformat the hard drive to be one XP volume only, after a dual-boot setup (no

how do i deinstall win98 in a dual boot configuration?
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the XP dual-boot thingy working fine. But now 98 is (as usual) getting crashy and I want to format C: and reinstall, but this will obviously then lose my dual-boot (as it did before - I had to reinstall XP in the end just to get the dual-boot back) So.... can I backup any files and put them back after the

About dual boot systems
However I still can't get the dual boot option. Now whenever I boot the computer by default it boots from vista. The boot menu or dual boot option with two OS haven't shown up yet. I have both the OS (ie Vista and XP) installed on my hard drive. I think BIOS doesn't detect two OS due to which I can't get the dual

Fixing a dual boot scenario
My boss has a laptop with a dual boot setup for Windows Me and Windows 2000. He would like change it to a dual boot Windows 2000 and Windows XP system. I tried once for myself to see what would happen and from a clean hard drive and installation I tried to create a Windows 2000 and Windows XP dual boot machine.

Dual boot system won't boot in MSDOS after HD install
Hi, I have Vista Business installed on my laptop. I installed it myself and it resideside on a single partion of my laptop. I would like to partition my hard drive so I can dual boot XP. What is the simpilist and safest way to do this? I am willing to purchase a partioning program. What say you folks? thanks.

dual boot
I've seen a few posts regarding Dual Booting so I thought I might share a bit of knowledge and hopefully help someone. Setting up a dual boot between Windows98(FAT32) and WindowsNT supposedly can't be done because WindowsNT doesn't recognise the FAT32 file system. The official Microsoft method for doing this is to

dual boot
But does any one know of any manufacturer who will support dual boot (other than Apple)? PC notebook manufacturer will support only the OS that are factory installed. In this respect, you may be better of with the Dell/Ubuntu combo. For hardware tech support during warranty period, I usually keep the factory

Adobe registration on dual-boot systems
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course he can dual boot 2 installations of Windows XP. It says so right in the Eula! Quote: You may install, use, access, display and run one copy of the Software on a single computer. See your own quote - "you may install .... one copy of the Software on a single computer". The additional installation is the

Dual Boot
My brain needs rebooting because I cannot offhand remember how to fix the following dual boot scenario. 1) Win 98 First Edition and Win NT4W happily installed in a dual boot scenario. 2) Smart user gets hold of a copy of Win 98 Second Edition and is well pleased that the upgrade went OK.

Dual boot NT / Win95?
And no, it's not too late: Just install Win98 on a DIFFERENT partition than 2k, and then from within 98, shove in the 2k cd and select Repair as the install type... you can then either do the quick repair option, or choose to restore boot sector and boot files (will set it up for dual boot).

dual boot
I want to dual boot my PC , I have the windows XP CD Rom and product number , a copy of Linux on CD Rom , do I need Partition Magic to partition the HDD it is NTSF TIA Some Linux distros have non-destructive repartitioning built-in. If so, you will not need PM. But either way...back up your data first...something

Dual-boot with XP Updgrade & recovery CD?
Finally, I deceided (not knowing for sure what would happen) to set up the system so that Win98 on the C: partition was booting directly (no dual boot menu) and reinstall XP as an "upgrade", hoping (praying) that it would give me a choice of which partition to install on, and that if it did and I selected the XP

Reinstall ME on Dual Boot
The problem is boot partition is the same as XP partition, because you format that partition, you'll kill Vista's Boot. "Mac (Croatia)" <MacCroa...@discussions.microsoft. com> escribió en el mensaje news:6387516B-D9B0-4B0B-AFF0-05CC0713D1DB@microsoft.com... I have dual boot XP and Vista on same disk , different

How do I dual boot under win95??
My question is about setting up a dual boot so I could switch between XP-Home and Win2000. Is this very difficult? I like XP and have put a lot of labor into getting everything about it just the way I want, so it'd be a bummer to have to wipe it all and install from scratch Win2000. One question I have is if I did

dual boot with 2nd disk question
Problemo Numero Uno--What MS calls "dual-boot" is not always what everyone else calls "dual-boot". Much of what they refer to in this manner involves booting two different OSes from the same partition. Furthermore, they appear to steer very clear of mentioning any such setup as I would call dual or multi boot

Can I dual boot 2 win XP?
Also you won't be able to "just delete" the 2nd OS, you'll need to use the dual-boot configuration utility to remove it from the equation before you can 'get I gave up on Dual boot with Ubuntu but have not problems with 3 xp boots. Can you instead focus on getting those things installed that you need right away

Dual boot, correct boot.ini
Where did you get those boot.ini files? Please explain "drives", do you have two physical hard disks or do you have 2 partitions on one hard disk? What caused you to lose dual booting abilties? Did you reinstall one of the operating systems before this started? Which operating system can you now boot to?