having problems doing a dual boot.

[SiC420]

I have never done a dual boot before.. and i can't seem to get it to work

i have a 40 gig partitioned into 2 drives.. on the c drive i have windows ME installed and it is in fat32, on the other drive i have XP and it is ntsf.

windows is installed.. but when i boot up it just goes into me, isn't there a way so i can choose which to boot up

do i have to get a program or anything like that.. thanks for your help

 

[Superwormy]

Did you install WinME first and WinXP second? Check your boot.ini file also, does the boot loader even come up?

 

[Buzzman151]

winME...... tisk tisk... that's what you get for trying to do suck a thing

 

[altonb1]

"winME...... tisk tisk... that's what you get for trying to do suck a thing"

I'm sure that was supposed to say such but both seem to fit WinME, don't they?!?

Anyway...when installing XP (or NT/2k), you must install the other OS first. You might be able to attempt a repair on XP to see if that fixes it, but I'm really not sure. My guess is you re-sysed the drive with ME so XP is not using the boot menu at all. It is possible that you somehow configured XP to load ME by default with a wait cycle of 0. If that's the case, you just need to get to the boot menu and choose XP to fix it. You'll have to be quick, though.

 

[HappyPuppy]

System Commander

 

[SiC420]

I got it to work.. wasted 4 hours of my time.. because i just found out that windows me doesnt' support ati radeion mobility so i have to find hacked drivers.. but no one can help me there.. so

back to xp..