advice dual boot

XP Dual Boot - Please I Need Advice
I have reinstalled windows and lost my dual boot. how do i get it back please.** **After multiple attempts to fix W98, I decided to format and reload. This was problematic, but I continued **I am currently experiencing difficulties while trying to dual boot Win2k Pro and FreeBSD using the Grub[1] boot loader.

Bug#466713: Lenny SATA RAID Dual Boot Installation Report
I have no experience at all with dual booting so I'm not sure where to go from here. If the other liscence of XP is OEM you cannot do that according to EULA or you are pirating. Even if its retail and its ok with the EULA, many things might mess this up.. since xp might just give you a blue screen or struggle

Dual Boot XP & Wijn98, raid problem, advice?
So what reason do you have to dual boot? 2. Yes one drive is fine. It works better if on two partitions (same or different drives - doesn't matter) but can 3. Don't use any boot managers. Win2000 includes it's own that is the best (for dual booting two MS operating systems). Apart from some preperation both ME

A7V advice re. APCI, PnP and dual boot
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com linux gentoo user James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes: Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP. I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first (amd64 livedcd) is there

Advice on Dual boot Mandrake Linux/Win2K
Just install W2K on the 2nd HD and it will automatically set up a dual boot for you. You can choose which you want to be the default, if that's what you're asking. "JM7" <bra...@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:LhGD7.269319$bY5.1075915@news-server.bigpond.net.au... I have a very stable and trouble free WIN95

Newbie Reqs Advice Re Choosing Dual Boot Install Disk
I want to install a dual-boot setup with Windoze Me on one disk and Linux Mandrake 8.2 on the other, but I'm uncertain how to set up a dual boot syatem spanning 2 separate disks (I've managed it with no problems before on a single disk). Being a Debian man, I don't know how Mandrake's install works, but I guess it

dual boot
The simplest way I've found to dual boot between Win9x and WinXP would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows: C: Primary FAT32 Win9x/Games D: Extended NTFS WinXP/Serious Apps Adjust the partition sizes according to your actual hard drive(s) size and the amount of space you'd like to allocate to each OS

Advice on setting up system dual boot with Mandrake Linux and ...
http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/a_little_som_thing Some development progress from KDE: KDE Commit Digest - Issue 96 - 3rd February 2008 ,----[ Quote ] A recent new It was offered in a "dual boot" setup, alongside Windows, so buyers had to choose at the initial power-up whether to run one or the other.

dual boot NT + win - any advice
For NT to boot, the boot partition has to be FAT16 (just regular FAT) or NTFS. For Win98 The boot partition has to be FAT16 or FAT32. So to have a dual boot with these two, you have to have a boot partition of FAT16. The second partition can be anything you like. You CAN split the drive to 3 partitions.

Dual boot advice
John's advice provides good advice and alternatives. "martyl" <mar...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2AF5C8F3-2B1A-441F-BC7A-A78696C380D6@microsoft.com... I wish to install vista 64 on my computer that has Windows XP Pro as dual boot. Drive C would have XP Pro Drive G Vista 64.

Newbie: Installation Advice for Dual Boot
I can wipe the hard drive and reinstall 95 no problem, but I'd like to set up a dual boot this time. I've heard things about how NT gives grief when you try to have it dual boot, something about competing boot managers and stuff. So I thought I'd ask first and see if I got any advice. I have Partition Magic and

Geek blowing smoke? (dual-boot advice)
My mobo CD does contains drivers for the Promise controller, but XP will only look on the A: drive, and I'm not sure there are XP drivers on it anyways. 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?

Advice on eliminating a dual boot system
I want to dual boot my PC , I have the windows XP CD Rom and product number , a copy of Linux on CD Rom , do I need Partition Magic to partition the HDD it is NTSF I've got yes and all my files are backed up You seem to be in the UK, so uk.comp.os.linux would be one place to go for general Linux-related advice.

Dual boot English and Chinese versions of Windows 98. Advice ...
Mac (Croatia) MacCroa...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup 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. I have removed XP and now I have this situtation: boot manager is on C

Need advice on XP/98 dual boot setup
Bruce Chambers bcham...@micron.net microsoft public windowsnt setup Greetings -- The simplest way I've found to dual boot between Win9x and WinNT would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows: C: > 512 Mb FAT16 Boot Files & Data Transfer D: FAT32 Win9x/Games E: NTFS WinNT/Serious Apps Adjust the partition

"consistent advice," or, the sad case of the lost windows boot, or ...
Hello, RC Thanks a lot for the very clear and complete advice. I'll think I go for option 2; I am working on a dual-boot W98-W2k system as it is. So it really is time to do a good cleanup...... I'll install the new drive as a master, reset the existing drive to slave and boot from the W2k CD.

Geek blowing smoke? (dual-boot advice)
Hi I'm going to dual boot WinXP and Linux (?) from a single HD. Although I've researched this quite thoroughly, I'm surprised that there is no simple step-by-step My needs are very simple (OOo, Media Player and Internet are the only essentials) and I would appreciate advice as to which is likely to suit my

Dual boot Win98 & Win2K advice
You shouldn't have to do this with Win98 because it is supposed to be aware of WinNT, but i would have WinNT boot floppies and a repair disk handy just in case. Denny Conn wrote: I've got several machines set up to dual boot 95 & nt. Used the usual method of installing 95 first, then letting nt do its thing.

Dual Boot Advice Needed
If you're willing to use Win98's version of DOS and get there through the Win98 startup menu instead of the NT boot menu, none of this hassle would be necessary, just run the upgrade CD. Loren Denny Conn wrote: I've got several machines set up to dual boot 95 & nt. Used the usual method of installing 95 first,

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Will Windows 2000 Pro & DirectX 8 handle most games or do I need to set up a dual-boot system with Win 2000 Pro for me, and another OS for her? If I need to go dual-boot, what would be the best choice of OS for her (Win98, WinME, or Win2000)? Here's the specs on the system: Pentium III - 1ghz 512mb 133mhz RAM 40gb