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Dual boot Win98 and NT 4 partitioning question.
I want to run a dual boot with NT due to it's better memory management, "stability", etc... I use a lot of resource intensive graphics/video/audio programs and am trying to get the most juice possible out of this new setup. My plan is to partition off 10G and install NT using Partition Magic.

Mandrake 10.1 Install question (dual boot and winxp)
DragonLord noem...@noemail.com alt os linux mandrake Nucleon wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:49:23 +0000, nowher wrote: Can the 9.0 Mandrake disk resizing tool shrink the XP partition safely or is it a wipe the hard disk situation to set up a dual boot? Dan Yes, it can. But it must be FAT32, not NTFS (you want FAT32

Dual boot question: Currently use W2K, want to install and ...
Jerry McAllister jerr...@clunix.cl.msu.edu lucky freebsd questions Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot. What's the easiest way?

dual boot question
Andrew Rossmann andyr...@ntsource.no_junk.com comp sys ibm pc hardware storage Neal Matthis wrote: I have bought a 30GB drive and I want to install a dual boot Win98/Win2K system. Now I will want to install Win2K on an NTFS5 partition. So this dual boot system will have one OS on one partition, and the other OS on

Dual boot question
My plan is to start by booting from a LiveCD, then install Linux in a dual boot with WIN98SE, then install just Linux. ..... If there is a better NG for my questions then please advise. Thank you for your help. Well, anything hardware-related can normally be discussed here, but depending on your distribution of

Dual boot question
I am dual booting and I use NT for most everything and 98 for games only. NT is a lot more stable and is more secure. NT is a lot harder to install hardware because it is not plug and play. You have to know how to install drivers, and it takes time to iron out the bugs. To dual boot just install 98 and intall NT on

Adobe registration on dual-boot systems
This is a different dual-boot question. And accept my appreciation for your help. I see a lot of questions and answers about dual booting, but one detail seems always to be missing. Do you choose full install or upgrade to install XP as a second OS? Or is there another option? Also, I forgot how I did it but I did

Simple Question
No, I have ONE drive with three partitions, C, D, E. I had a dual boot XP (on C) and Vista (on E) . First was XP, Vista installation through XP. .... One more question before I hit the delete button. If I delete the C partition, my XP parition, will my Vista partition suddenly decide that it's the C partition and

dual boot question... please read inside
My WinME installation is corrupted, and will not even boot any more. I have totally removed all WinME files from the HD and was planning on re-installing it from a command prompt, via a WinME startup disk. My question is, will installing ME from a command prompt overwrite the boot sector and remove the 2K dual-boot

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Uncle Theodore uncletheod...@hotmail.com alt os linux mandrake On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:49:23 -0600, nowhere wrote: Can the 9.0 Mandrake disk resizing tool shrink the XP partition safely or is it a wipe the hard disk situation to set up a dual boot? Dan If the XPs filesystem is NTFS, use Partition Magic or something

dual boot with two hard drive problem/question
It would be easier to tell if I could get it to boot ... had it up twice , can't seem to complete the boot sequence for some reason . I'm going to burn another copy after work today , when I get it up again I want to go ahead and install in a dual-boot configuration . The CD-R's I'm using have been around here for

Quicken 2008 Deluxe Vista 64 bit - Couple of questions
You will just need to vary the name of the bootsect file for each separate installation. "Charlie C" <NOspamchasc...@ptd.net> wrote in message news:OJymmABFAHA.102@cppssbbsa04... If my system is set for dual boot with C being Win2000 and drive D being Win 98SE can I make drive c NTFS????? Charlie C.

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Since i want to install it on a machine that has winXP and win2k using the NTFS file system for both, I have tried to find articles on how to dual boot linux with windows, but so far i'm still unclear how to configure grub. Some sites say to install it on the windows mbr other sites say to avoid that and install it

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John use_...@usenet.com comp graphics apps photoshop I apologize if this question has been asked before. I will be reviewing many of the posts over this weekend as time allows. I am currently running WinXP SP2 and want to migrate to XP Is it really a big deal to install a second instance on the same system ? JD.

newbie question on dual boot options
Can a HD have more than one primary partition with only one of them the active partition? What's the best way to install NT with Win98 already on the HD? I also have a second 600MB empty HD installed, would it be possible to install NT on that one and still dual-boot? Thanks in advance! Steve.

Yet another Dual Boot question
2, I have found out from various sources that to Dual Boot both Win ME and Win 2K I should install Win Me first, and then Win 2K. Am I right to think that the Win 2K install program will correctly detect Win ME and configure itself to give me a choice on start up?. Or will I have to use a third party application or

Quicken 2008 Deluxe Vista 64 bit - Couple of questions
The Win2kp install process will setup a boot menu on your C: partition, that will give you a choice upon boot-up. It is a hidden file called boot.ini, and it can be edited, to switch the default OS. I have not tested this with WinME, as I see no compelling reason to install ME, but it should work just the same.

Printer driver
I forgot that I actually have that situation on my dual-boot Debian/Ubuntu system, and thanks for pointing out that you have an isseu when you want to use 32-bit and 64-bit kernels. Got it. I do find though that when I install a new kernel in Debian, GRUB is not updated, only when I install ad new kernel in

Dual-Boot Question
Any suggestions on how to install win98 without wiping out the boot partition, or how to recreate the dual-boot menu? Thanks, Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe

newbie question----how to install grub???
Does server 2008 still boot? Server 2008 and 2003 use different boot mechanisms. Boot Configuration Data Editor Frequently Asked Questions installed Server 2003 it *should* have rewritten the MBR and dislodged the Server 2008 Boot code and allowed you to boot the installation but there might have been a glitch.