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Dual Boot 98SE and XP on two hard drives with PartitionMagic
If you want the BCD relocated you will have to make the drive first in boot priority and the partition you want an active primary partition on the drive. The registry edits in the procedure I gave in the attachment allows you to use the computer in a normal dual boot setup without risking anything in Vista when

Dual boot, correct boot.ini
->Yes, people have quite rightly said there is this utility and that ->method to dual boot, and you can take your pick, but they all do the ->same thing - boot to the main primary drive. You can have a total of ->up to 4 partitions on your main drive. Either 4 primary, 3 primary ->and one extended, 2 primary and 2

Cloning a dual boot Linux & Windows XP disk (Norton Ghost sucks)
I want to install WinXP onto my HD as a dual boot system. Currently, I have an 80 Gig drive that is partitioned thusly: C: 10Gig (WinME), D: 26 Gig E: 39 Gig All are Fat 32 and all are about half full, but D: and E: are just for data and multimedia stuff, nothing runs off it. I would like to add another partition

Dual-boot with XP Updgrade & recovery CD?
/mnt/win_hdd2 vfat 6 GB Windows apps, shareable data I would put this partition immediately after your Windows boot partition, and make both Primary reading the appropriate HOWTOs at The Linux Documentation Project -- www.tldp.org -- particularly the ones on Partitioning and Dual or Multiple OS installations.

Dual-boot W2k OS/2 all on HPFS
I currently use Win XP Pro (full version) on my computer and I need to install WIN XP again on a second partition on the same machine. Since the EULA specifies one license per computer, does that allow for a user to have two instances of WIN XP (in a dual boot configuration using a boot manager such as BootMagic)

Ghosting Dual Boot - Reposted Help Request
Win98 is Win2000 aware in this type of dual boot system. Microsoft does not recommend this type of single partition dual boot setup, but it works just fine for most.You need to reinstall Office 2000 and others to the same directories they already are to make Win2000 aware of them. Some apps work without reinstall,

FAT32 & OS/2 Warp's Dual Boot
Finally, I deceided (not knowing for sure what would happen) to set up the system so that Win98 on the C: partition was booting directly (no dual boot menu) and reinstall XP as an "upgrade", hoping (praying) that it would give me a choice of which partition to install on, and that if it did and I selected the XP

Need advice on XP/98 dual boot setup
Markus Kohm markus.k...@gmx.de alt os linux suse Richard Sperling wrote: If I want a dual-boot system, can I install the Linux boot partition on the second disk, or must it be installed within the first 1024 cylinders on the first disk? Everywhere you want. But you have to install LILO either at MSB of first hdd

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Windows 2000 supports dual booting with the following operating systems: a.. Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0 b.. Windows 95, Windows 98 c.. Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 d.. MS-DOS e.. OS/2 To set up a dual-boot configuration, you must use a separate partition for each operating system.

Dual Boot using BootMagic
And, you'll still have the dual-boot partition there even if it is just booting one OS, those are tricky to remove and leave behind a "single OS that boots I will probably just hide/unhide/make active the partitions manually as I won't be changing all that often. IMO the dual boot stuff is not worth it but

Windows 98/95 dual boot
Ronnie Vernon MVP r...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp general {k Binnard wrote: My 98SE machine has 1 physical hard drive set up as 3 partitions: C: (OS), D: (Software), E: (Temp/swap.) I want to add XP as a 2nd OS and be able to dual-boot for a while. Eventually I want to switch to XP completely and

format vista to xp, OR partition vista, dual boot with xp?
You can use Partition magic to partition the HD and not loose any data. Then you can have access to Vista while installing XP, then remove Vista. Always nice to have an OS you can boot into if something goes wrong. -- Bette Davis Eyes http://youtube.com/watch?v=_-RdAzkKlXY.

Dual Boot
Check to see what sorts of file formats it will create in the Create Partition routine. If it will format ext2, and lists Linux Swapfile option for a partition, you're in charge. If not, I do know that 5.0 works, as that's what I have and use. I am looking to install Mandrake 8 as a dual boot setup with Win98SE,

Win98se and XP dual-boot with 1.5 gig RAM
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

Dual Boot Lost
WayneC 75557.2...@linkline.com comp os os2 setup misc Daryl Pilkington wrote: G'day from Oz, I'm attempting to make a dual-boot W2k & OS/2 box: Partition: FS: Type: Size: Function: 0 Prim. 7 BootManager 1 NTFS Log. 1500 W2k OS 2 HPFS Log. 500 Temp, swapper, spool, maintenance boot to OS/2 3 HPFS Log.

Dual boot NT / Win95?
The PC Guy pc...@attbi.com alt sys pc-clone dell Hello Paul: Yes, setting up a dual boot configuration can be confusing if you've never gone that route before. The problem is you cannot have more than one partition on a hard drive that is primary, active and not hidden. This is not a problem with Partition Magic.

BEST way to set up a dual-boot Win98SE/WinXP system?
Setting up a dual boot between Windows98(FAT32) and WindowsNT supposedly can't be done because WindowsNT doesn't recognise the FAT32 file system. The official Microsoft method for doing this is to set up a small FAT partition on the primary drive and using that to point to the Windows98 and WindowsNT partitions.

Partitioning a new HD for dual boot
So I still have my win xp cd, so I am just wondering if it's a bad idea to partition the 300gb drive after the fact. or is it a better idea to format first and then partition. So I can have xp on one and the other for data storage, or I could eventually put vista back on (if there is a compelling reason).

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
See my addition comments below re: trying to use Norton Ghost to just clone the Windows XP partition. But I was able to use Linux to clone and setup the dual boot clone drive: The 30 Gig hard drive was originally setup by: Installating Windows XP Pro and using the Windows XP installation to create a 13 Gig first

Dual boot, correct boot.ini
I would like to partition my hard drive so I can dual boot XP. What is the simpilist and safest way to do this? I am willing to purchase a partioning program. What say you folks? thanks I used this as well and it worked for me. http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp You should back-up all your files before