Dual Boot - Installing 2000 after XP

From: Sean (seanf90_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:40:15 -0700

Thanks Brian and Jim,

2 Problems.

1. The laptop does not support simultaneous use of floppy
and CD!
2. Both logical partitions are, and need to be, NTFS.

Jim's idea about copying the I386 folder to the HD
sounded like a good workaround allowing me to boot from
floppy and then change dir to the HD to execute
winnt32.exe amnually.

Problem is that I cannot get execute access to the NTFS
drives.
I have obtained the readntfs.exe utility and used it
inconjunction with a bootdisk.
It all works but readntfs.exe only provides read access to
the NTFS partitions (as its name suggests!).
I can analyse winnt32.exe but I cant run it...
Are there any boot utilities that allow execution of exe
files on NTFS partitions?

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop.
>2.4 GHz
>512 Mb RAM
>DVD/CD Burner
>
>It has 60 GB in 2 partitions on the hard drive.
>XP is installed in partition 1.
>I want to install 2000 server in partition 2.
>
>I know you are supposed to install 2000 first but its too
>late for that.
>I know about the workaround steps - backing up ntdlr and
>ntdetect.com from the XP partition and then reapplying
>after installing 2000.
>
>The problem is that I cannot get the 2000 install CD to
be
>recognised as bootable.
>I have set the CD as the boot device and it is ignored
>when the 2000 cd is in but OK if I try to boot from an XP
>cd.
>I have tried manually selecting boot device also (this is
>a menu option during Dell laptops startup).
>There is nothing wrong with the 2000 cd - it is
recognised
>as bootable by a machine already running 2000
>(professional).
>
>
>I tried booting from 2000 boot floppies.
>Doesnt work.
>The first step is 'loading files (machine
identification)'
>and it always hangs there (left it for 8 hours!)
>Booting from an XP bootable floppy works OK so it should
>be possible.
>
>Is there any hack for getting a 2000 install CD to be
>recognized as bootable on a machine which already has XP?
>.
>

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