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Dual boot setup on Dell 600m, 2000 & XP

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Trey22

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I need 2000 due to a certain app I run for work, and would like XP for my own "stuff".

60gb drive. I formatted the drive, created the first partition of 15gb, installed 2000 on that, then created another partition of 45gb, installed XP on that.

I can boot into either OS, but I can see both drive partitions (C & E drives). My CD drive shows up as D. Why is that? Anything I should of done different? I would really prefer XP on C, 2000 on D, and E being my CDRW drive, and to NOT be able to see the other OS's drive!

Also, when in XP, I attempt to install something, it defaults to C: which is corresponds to the Windows 2000 partition.

It was mentioned the easiest way to accomplish what I want is to use Partition Magic... anybody second that?



 
All that really is required to dual-boot is the seperate partitions.
Partition Magic is fine, but it essentially shines in resizing and reconfiguring
partitions. FDisk does just as good a job at partitioning.

You can rearrange the drive letter with Disk Management in each OS.

Most program installs default to C: because 99% of PCs are not dual booted.
 
If you create and format both partions before you install the OS, your CD will show up as 'E'.

If you cange the drive letters after the OS is installed, you won't be able to boot. IE: from XP you change the 2000 drive letter. When you go to boot 2000 it won't.

Bozo 😀
 
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