[BNM] Win 2000 / Win XP Dual Boot

[Alan Braddish]

Thanks Sevan - I will try that.

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: Sevan / Venture37 [mailto:venture37 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 10 November 2006 13:05
To: bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org
Subject: Re: [BNM] Win 2000 / Win XP Dual Boot

Alan Braddish wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I already have Win XP Pro on one partition, and wish to install Win2K Pro
>onto a second partition in a dual-boot scenario.
>
>Is this safe to do?  I seem to remember doing this in the past and then the
>Win2K installation must have overwritten some system files on the XP
>partition so that XP failed to boot, even though I installed 2K onto a
>completely different partition.
>
>Is it safe to do this?  I need reminding!
>
>TIA.
>Alan
>
>
Backup the following files from c:
NTDETECT.com
arcldr.exe
arcsetup.exe
ntldr
IO.sys
MSDOS.sys

& try sticking them back in after win2k has installed, those are the
only files that would affect XP's boot process that 2k might touch.


Sevan

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