Aqua-Soft Forumsi have 2000pro installed on my pc (FAT32) and i want to also install XP Pro to dual boot on the same drive....does it need to be partitioned? because i thought i heard you could install 2000 and XP on the same drive in different directories to dual boot? am i correct?
2000 & Xp Dual Boot
No you cant ,.. either use a partition manager to create another partition,.. or i would just reformat ,.... fdisk in a new partition, then first install 2000 then xp. xp will automatically install into the new partition. (2000 = c: xp =d:)
But why? if you said 98se then ok,.. but 2000 and xp are almost the same,.. xp is basically an improved 2000.
I say get rid of 2000 and stick with xp.
the reason i wanted to dual boot is because i dont want to completely go to XP, i have had problems with it (some people havent and thats great) but i just want to try a few things, and maybe completely upgrade....it doesnt matter, i havent paid anything... 
anyway, i've been trying to use partition magic, and when it reboots to change the size of the current partition, it stops in about 15 seconds and says something to the effect of "unable to resize partition, wrong size recorded in FAT"....i dont remember the exact message, it said FAT (something something)
oh well, i should be getting my mac from my friend soon...if not, i'm gonna kick his ass, hehehe
Originally posted by sakasune@Mar 7 2003, 04:42 AMthe reason i wanted to dual boot is because i dont want to completely go to XP, i have had problems with it (some people havent and thats great) but i just want to try a few things, and maybe completely upgrade....it doesnt matter, i havent paid anything...
anyway, i've been trying to use partition magic, and when it reboots to change the size of the current partition, it stops in about 15 seconds and says something to the effect of "unable to resize partition, wrong size recorded in FAT"....i dont remember the exact message, it said FAT (something something)
oh well, i should be getting my mac from my friend soon...if not, i'm gonna kick his ass, hehehe
Read the documentation that comes with PartitionMagic. I'm pretty sure there is an issue with PartitionMagic and XP. I vaguely recall XP having a problem with it. I really don't remember the details since it was last year when I first used PartitionMagic.
Try changing your partitions to NTFS then reallocate. Maybe that will work.
Anyway, I just recently upgraded from W2000 to XP on this old Celeron 533mhz eMachines and it works great (better than I thought). If you don't like XP, you can always do a clean install of W2000 again.
yea, but i'm not telling partition magic that i'm putting on XP, in fact i was seeing if i could make a partition at the end of my drive for my music (it causes much fragmentation), but it wont work
odd though, a few months back i was playing with trying to dual boot into linux and win2000, and i was able to make another partition for that....