Can you turn a new laptop into a dual boot system?

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Folks, I posted this in the O/S forum and have received no response so I thought I'd try here. A friend of mine just purchased a brand new Compaq lappy with WinXP home and he'd like to partition the hard drive so he can "ghost" the hard drive of his Win98SE desktop over and be able to run either system. How big a hassle would this be? How would he go about it? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Rick

 

[MattTheTech]

Heres an article on dual booting 98 and XP

http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/dualboot.html

As far as ghosting the data, I would create the dual boot system with a clean 98 install, and once everythings up,
then ghost the 98 data to the 98 partition on the laptop.