OOPS!! XP Home installed on W2K partition

[Rhombus65]

I am working on a computer that has XP Home installed on the same partition with W2K.

I have never seen this done. Customer does not want to rebuild HDD.

Any advice out there?? W2k seems to still be working. Can W2K just keep being run and ignore XP or will there be problems. When I boot to XP it only gets to the point where it tells you to have Microsoft activate the OS.



Jim: A+, MCP W2k, Master Electrician

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing..."
-Albert Einstein

 

[bcastner]

It should be fine, not ideal, but fine. You could activate the XP install.

 

[Rhombus65]

Thank you.

Jim: A+, MCP W2k, Master Electrician

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing..."
-Albert Einstein

 

[linney]

Where they may run into problems is if both installations have access to C/Program Files and have installed programs with the same name in both systems. Later programs on Home may be installed into a different location but many of the Windows installed software would already be sharing that location.

 

[bcastner]

I agree, but you face the same issue if you have a second partition or drive, and use that as a common program store.

What is fortunate in this instance was that the first client was NT. If the first client had been Win2k it would have been a mess.

 

[linney]

Windows seems to handle different partitions quite sensibly just by using different drive letters, you would have to go out of your way to install programs from one windows installation into the other installations program files. But like you say the problems would be the same.

I assume your second point is a typing error as this is 2000 and Home being discussed, or a brilliant point that has lost me completely (which isn't hard to do).

 

[bcastner]

A temporary brain freeze on my part.