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Dual boot with Win XP Home

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stevenr

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Feb 21, 2001
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I have win xp home & win 2000, i'm trying to install them onto 1 disk on a laptop but with 2 partitions, after installing both 2000 works fine but XP errors as it cant find a file.

Are there any issues with these O/S, can't they work as dual boot? or am i doing it wrong?

 
Did you install 2000 first? If so run a repair from the xp cd.

Ash.
 
Have to run XP first as it's a auto-install cd, then I ran the 2000 setup with XP on C: and 2000 on D:
 
You always should do it the oldest version first, stick in the XP cd and run a quick repair it'll replace the boot files with the XP ones.

Ash.
 
I installed XP then 2000, this led to XP failing to load, then i re-installed XP, this made 2000 fail to wrok, any ideas?
 
What error are you getting when trying to load 2000 now?

Ash.
 
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