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Dual Booting Win ME and XP is this right?

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I am running Win ME and have XP professional. I got a deal on a hard drive so I was going to install it and leave my present drive C with Win ME alone. From reading the FAQ's and other messages, I believe I can add the second drive and load XP on to it. (Is this right?) Also can I go ahead and format the new drive as ntfs instead of Fat32? I realize WinME will not see it if i do that, but that's ok. Do have all this right or have i overlooked something? If I am correct my understanding is that XP will create a boot.ini file and allow me to dual boot.

Thank You for your input and assistance

If there is something else I should know or consider please tell me.🙂
 
Yep, that should work fine. As long as WinME is installed when XP goes on, it will automaticly set up a dual boot. Just make sure you put winXP on the partition you want it to install on. Be extra careful about that.
 
Derango

Thank you. I am going to put it on the new second drive. I was going to have just one partition on the new drive.

Thanks Again
 
everything should be fine if you install it on its own drive, but if I were you I wouldn't format in NTFS because, you will be unable to access it with ME. (without some 3rd party software)
 


<< everything should be fine if you install it on its own drive, but if I were you I wouldn't format in NTFS because, you will be unable to access it with ME. (without some 3rd party software) >>




if you would rather use NTFS for ME you could always convert the FAT partition to NTFS. CONVERT [driveletter]: /FS:NTFS
 


<< if you would rather use NTFS for ME you could always convert the FAT partition to NTFS. CONVERT [driveletter]: /FS:NTFS >>


me cannot be installed on a NTFS partition!
 
Bacillus

That was my understanding too. I am going to leave WinME on C drive as is, Fat32 and all. Partition and Format the new drvie with ntfs using the WinXP CD, then load XP. There are only a few items on the ME drive that I would consider moving to XP and I can't think of anything that I would put on XP that I would need to put on to ME.

I appreciate your input, thank you again.
 


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<< if you would rather use NTFS for ME you could always convert the FAT partition to NTFS. CONVERT [driveletter]: /FS:NTFS >>


me cannot be installed on a NTFS partition! >>



woops...i misread and misinterpretted what he was saying. my mistake 😱
 
I have come across another possible error in doing this and want to confirm my solution. I have a soundblaster Live card (yes the original live) and a 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 video card. I have gone to creatives website and downloaded the latest XP drivers for both. Where I am unsure is: To take advantage of both, eventhough XP comes with drivers already installed, After XP installation and getting any windows upddates for it. I then load the original software that came with them, and update with the latest drivers from creative. In the case of the live card they have abandoned liveware but I have the last copy of that which to work on my system becuase of the emu chip and my P3V4X motherboard I had to use.

Any insight by someone else that may have made a similar upgrade would be most appreciative.

Thanks in advance
🙂
 
As far as drivers go, XP is gonna install anything it has from the door. It will be up to you to decide if you are gonna keep what XP gives you. Personallyl, I wouldn't try to load anything older than what XP provides.

-SUO
 
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