Duel booting win2k

[deepthought42]

Yes I have searched the faq's before u ask!

I would like to know if it is possible to duel boot with the hard drive set-up I have??

Hard drive is 40GB partitioned as one primary partition of 3GB containing Win ME.

An extended patition of 37GB consisting of 6 logical drives.

One of the LOGICAL drives is empty and I want to know if Win2K could be installed on it????

Any help greatly appreciated
D

 

[wolluf]

I believe it probably can (

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q138364&)

- though I wouldn't! (I never install o/s on extended partitions as I've seen them 'disappear' too often when something happens on the primary). What's on the logical drives? You could try it - if win2k install process lets you select the logical drive space to install 2k to, probably ok - you'll get dual-boot ME/2k - remember boot files will be on the ME primary partition. Personally, unless you have lots of the 37GB filled up with data, I'd look at reorganising filestore so you have 2 primary partitions at start of drive (2nd for 2k) - then extended.

 

[Snickle]

I believe you should have no problems dual-booting WinME on C: and Win2000 [or even WinXP] on D: [or whichever] partition. I do it with 2 notebooks, 98/2000 on one and 98/XP HE on the other, 20GB drives split 50% and 50% [used percent for a reason].

Fdisk will allow 1 primary partition, then a Logical partition with Extended partition/s in the Logical. Your 3GB is the primary and the 37GB is the Logical [no drive letter assigned yet] and the other 6 partitions are the Extended which get drive letters.

Win9x/ME has to be on the boot/system drive/partition [C:] and the latest OS goes on last, creating the boot menu in the process. You could format the Win2000 partition as NTFS but Win9x/ME can't work with NTFS. Win2000/XP can work with FAT32.

It is true that if C: drive becomes unusable, so can all the partitions. After all, they are on the same physical drive.

I'd go along with simplifying the drive, reduce the number of partitions.

 

[deepthought42]

Thanks Wolluf and Berton for your responses, with regard to what you both have said I think I will re-organise the hard drive and then install.

Thanks again

Regards D