I recently installed Windows XP, and ever since then I can't start up BeOS without getting a kernel panic message. Is there anyway to solve the problem without losing my files saved in beos or reinstalling it?? I only use a floppy, I never used it without one! please help me!

I assume you have one hard drive with BeOS PE installed as an image.be file within the windows XP file system, further that you upgraded from ME or 98? First try booting in safe mode in BeOS by pressing the space bar from the blue screen and see if you can see the BeOS file or partition. Use safe boot options. Otherwise if it is on a FAT file you can compress the file in windows and save it to a zip disk. You may be able to copy uncompressed to a CD. Reinstall the BeOS PE and when/if it runs mount the old file and recover the files. Check Betips.net for other ideas. Find a way to save your work at least two ways. You might use Norton Ghost to burn a track for track copy if it is a partition. XP seems to hate the bootman in BeOS. Funny that?

if you installed Windows XP onto ntfs file system (like me) and your BeOS is on this ntfs partition then you can't boot BeOS. All you have to do is copy your BeOS directory to a partition that uses fat or fat32. Then you can boot into BeOS with the BeOS floppy disk. If you don't want to use boot disk you must install BeOS onto its own file system or install XP to d: partition and BeOS to c: partition. And use bootman or run addbeos.exe if you want to use XP's boot manager. I use BeOS talented boot manager "bootman" and it easily boots WinXP and BeOS on my pc. I installed BeOS onto its own file system.