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Advice on XP please
Since Linux is perfectly happy running from any drive, most people dual or multiple boot using LILO or GRUB bootloader that comes with Linux. I heard special configuration is needed to dual boot with XP, but do not have XP, so no details. If they wanted to keep each drive totally independent and self bootable,

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Johnny The Homocidal Maniac les...@netreach.net comp graphics packages 3dstudio www.netreach.net/~lestat i give a pretty thorough tutorial on dual boot systems O)

Advice restoring a dual boot system
NT boot manager works fine. I have about 6 machines configured as such. You might want to install NT on a separate partition. Also, NT doesn't understand FAT32 (unless you have NT v5), so you cannot access those partitions using NT. If you want to dual boot W9x and NT, your boot partition (C) has to be FAT16.

Additional harddisk advice needed.....
I need to create a dual-boot setup or at the least... convert a W98 machine to a NT 4.0 machine. I have the NT software, and I'm wondering about a couple of things: 1. Should I use partition Magic (I have it) to create the NT partition in my root drive? I've never use PM before so I'm hoping it works as advertised

Looking for Dual Boot DAW advice
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net alt os windows-xp "ShinRyuu" <ShinRyuu@GodDragon. co.jp> wrote: There is a computer using Win98, and have installed WinXP using XP's native dual boot. Now he don't want the Win98 anymore. How to remove Win98 safely keeping XP unintact. Remove Windows 98 from the BOOT.INI file.

dual boot advice needed
You are creating a new copy if there are two installations after you finish and you can boot into either one. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] then installed on another? or can this only be done with earlier versions of windows to create a dual boot system. Appreciate any help and advice Mark.

dual boot advice needed
I need to install Win98 on a second 6 Gb HD for a Dual boot or somehow do a multiple boot (not sure if possible). I already have all file backed up and Rdisk /s ERDiskette. I will not need both OSs to share files - actually, I will prefer 98 not to see NT's HD. I prefer not to use a disk manager software.

Upgrading from 10.0 to 10.3
Roger W. Norman rnor...@starpower.net rec audio pro Well, dual boot isn'ta necessary step as one can do it with just the Windows login. Simply set up two distinct users for login, one being your normal, everyday work and one being your recording work. Within these, go into the Control Panel/Users and specify that

ADVICE: Dual boot setup from Scratch.
... audetw...@nbnet.nb.ca microsoft public windowsxp general David H. Lipman wrote: From: "John John" <audetw...@nbnet.nb.ca> Are they on the same computer (as in dual boot). I did some searching and found the site where I had found the information some time ago, there is good EMS troubleshooting advice here:

Advice wanted: Any new notebook type that can dual boot 98 and xp?
Now I use http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828 2) He says dual boot "is not recommended." He says modern versions of Linux read from and write to the MBR quite heavily. Writes to MBR only once during install and any OS has to read MBR to boot unless booting from

Need Advice: Dual or Multi-boot 98/NT40
Problem: grub yields errors after calling "setup (hd0)" from grub command line Solution: link -s /boot /boot/boot Problem: dmesg and syslog flooded by "attempt to access beyond end of device" messages. Solution: Advice udev and hal to ignore the partition table found on the first disk. Linux tries to reach the end

Looking for dual booting advice
Garry Burgess gburg...@home.com comp os linux It always scares me a bit to set up a dual boot because I'm never quite sure if I'll be able to boot back into Win2K. But presently, my system has 2 physical drives, no partitions on either of them. On D, the second drive, is a clean install of Win2K.

Advice Needed on NT/98 Dual HDD, Dual Boot Setup
Now i got a 40GB i dual boot 98se and xp pro, ideal as i get the best of both worlds. I think you should consider a nice dual boot. Can you set XP upto dual-boot? My copy, genuine Micro$oft, needed to blow anything on the hd away before installation. Presumably, if you can do it, you could have a triple-boot setup

Win xp Dual boot help and advice needed!
I've searched the ASUS website high and low and can't find much advice on this problem, or on the MS site... any advice to complete this dual boot installation? ASUS has 2 Promise RAID downloads. Depends on which Promise chip you have: http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?

Geek blowing smoke? (dual-boot advice)
Norm Dresner nd...@worldnet.att.net comp arch embedded I've been programming in many environments for decades but I'd like to get more experience with some RTOS for embedded computers. Since I have an old '486 cluttering up the lab I thought that I might try to set up a dual boot system with either MS-DOS or

Vista startup slow on high end pc
... should I run into any unforseen software issues. The XP installation is on another pc so I can take the drive out of it ( all drives are SATA if that matters) and add it to my new one. I have no experience at all with dual booting so I'm not sure where to go from here. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Gary.

Reinstall Windows
Any advice large or small gratefully accepted. Easiest thing in the world to do. Insert the install CD, boot and follow the onscreen instructions. The dual boot should be set up for you automagically. It's much easier than installing MS - for one thing you don't need to find all those hardware CDs to install a

Advice on setting up a dual boot with windows 2000
The earlier or lesser program (XP) must be installed first before the install of Vista, or you won't end up with a dual boot system. A dual boot system is set up during the initial install process. ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it

Dual boot - remove one OS.
A colleague has a FAT32 installation of Windows 98 English language version and wants to dual boot to this and the Chinese version of windows 98, which is not yet installed. Any advice and recommendations on how to do this would be appreciated. I noted in http://x7.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?

some advice needed-painless dual-boot install
Uh, so you give the same advice as I do, fail to answer the question and I am wrong? Strange. What I meant is: upgrade; not a new install. I always have a dual boot. Current and previous. My previous / is on /media/sdb1: houghi@penne : cat /media/sdb1/etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 10.2 (i586) VERSION = 10.2 So even