Re: Dual Boot Question

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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:18:23 -0400, Ken Roberts <> wrote:

>I know that the generally accepted method for Dual Boot is to load
>Win98 on C, then WinXP on D.

Not exactly. If the both drives are FAT32 ones -- you can install Win98
on D, then WinXP on C. There will be only a few Win98 files (less that
1MB total) in the root of C: drive then.

>However, C is faster than D because it occupies the outer portion of
>the drive platters. Therefore I have already installed XP on C and it
>is formatted with FAT32.
>
>Having installed XP first on C drive goes counter to everything I have
>read on dual-boot, so it may be too late for this, but at this point
>is there a way to:
>
>1) install another instance of XP on D drive and dual boot to a
>screen that allows me to boot to either XP on C, or XP on D ?? This
>is my preferred setup, because I want to put my video apps on C (the
>fast partition) and run XP there when doing Adobe Photoshop, Premiere,
>etc - and then put my Business apps on D where speed is not
>important (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc).

If you don't need Win98 -- you can do that with no problems if WinXP is
not an OEM version. I can't understand still, why you do need two
versions of WinXP (you can put almost any application, including MS
Office, wherever you want if to select non-automatic installation; say,
you can create manually "Program Files" folder on D: drive, and point to
this folder as to the base folder while installation) -- but that is
your choice.

>2) if (1) is impossible, can I instead install Win98 on D drive and
>dual boot to a screen that allows me to boot to either XP on C, or
>Win98 on D ??

Win98 retail installation disk does see WinXP loader -- and adds Win98
as the second operating system to Boot.ini as the default system. You
can change the default system later.

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Mikhail Zhilin
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