Add Windows Me to XP config.

[NateSLC]

Is there any way to add a Me install to a second hard drive on an XP machine? Can I select to boot from IDE-01 and install Me there? Then run XP on IDE-00 and add the Me OS to the boot menu?

Thanks

 

[NateSLC]

Please help me!

 

[NateSLC]

Isn't there anyone knowledgeable enough to say 'It simply can't be done?' Or can it?

 

[MrPhelps]

I am not sure but I have read many post like this and I wonder what is so good about ME.
Are you doing it to run older software????

Sorry I don't add any value to the post.

 

[MrPhelps]

thank andy

Hope it help.

 

[NateSLC]

jpl,

I don't like Me, but apparently my uncle can't use certain features of Quicken Home & Business 2001 with XP. Therefore I would like to put Me on a separate hard drive for that purpose only.

Thanks!

 

[jaybittle]

Nate,

You can and you can't. I'll explain, as I just did this yesterday.

In order to dual boot a Win9X (including ME) and 2000/XP, you need to install the Win9x/ME operating system first, and then install the XP second. Apparently, the WinME installation, if done second, really fouls up the XP boot sector and XP boot.ini file.

I did it in exactly the wrong order yesterday, and I paid the price. I have a TV card in my backup machine that I use all the time, but it is not suppored in WinXP, hence the need for WinME.

What I had to do to fix it was after I installed WinME, I re-installed XP. I just choose a "repair" installation, and it didn't mess up any of my settings, programs, etc.

That is what you are going to have to do. I even tried to use Boot Magic to dual boot when I had done the order wrong, and it couldn't even find the XP installation.

Copied from a Micro$oft document here :

On computers that contain Windows 98 (or Windows Me) and Windows XP:

As in the cases above, Windows 98 or Windows Me must be installed on a basic disk on a partition formatted with FAT or FAT32. If Windows 98 or Windows Me is not installed on the system partition, which is almost always the first partition on the disk, the system partition must also be formatted with FAT or FAT32.

Compressed DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes won?t be available while you are running Windows XP. It is not necessary to uncompress DriveSpace or DoubleSpace volumes that you will access only with Windows 98.

Windows XP must be installed last. Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.


cheers,
--jb

 

[jaybittle]

<< jpl,

I don't like Me, but apparently my uncle can't use certain features of Quicken Home & Business 2001 with XP. Therefore I would like to put Me on a separate hard drive for that purpose only.

Thanks! >>



Also, sorry for the separate post, but have you tried running the Quicken in compatibilty mode, to see if you can trick it into thinking it's running in WinME/98 ?

Right-click on the properties of the Quicken.exe file, check the "Run in compatibility mode" box and select the compatibility mode to be "Windows 98 / Me"

cheers,
--jb

 

[NateSLC]

jaybittle,

Thanks for all the information. I attempted to do just as you did today on my machine before I messed up my uncle's. Anyway, I ran into the same issues you did including a repair install of XP. Aside from my SB Live card, everything worked just fine but it was a big pain in the butt. He's 100 miles away and not very computer literate so I'll try your second suggestion first. I had forgotten about the compatibility mode settings. I will check that out tomorrow.

Nate