Re: Changing OS on Dual Boot PC

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:11:58 -0700

See your post of Sunday, February 13, 2005 8:04 PM in this group. 

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"doug" wrote:
|I currently have a dual booted server where I had a primary W2K Server and
| an emergency W2K server config.  I made a mistake and eventually made the
| W2K instance on drive D my primary.  The instance on drive C I have cut 
off
| as best I could and I never use it. I have a tiny home educational lan
| running Dev copy MS BackOffice on my drive D instance.
|
| I want to now put an instance of XP Pro on my drive C.
|
| Can I simply install XP Pro on drive C and have it retain the dual boot
| characteristics of knowing drive D is also bootable?  I understand 
generally
| the "newer" OS is installed 2nd.
|
| Do I need to "fix" the dual boot configuration after I install XP Pro?
|
| I usually don't mind trial and error.  Just not right now.  Too much going
| on.  And I do not want to risk doing a complete rebuild of my drive D
| instance of W2K.  I do do full backups on a network drive.  I just haven't
| had to actually rely on them yet.
|
| Any help greatly appreciated.
|
| regards,
|
| doug
|
|

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