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dual boot Win2k & XP 64 bit / 2HDs

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New Asus K8V Deluxe w/ AMD3200+ 64 bit cpu.1 G ram want to dual boot Win2k and XP 64 bit beta on separate HDs. What is the easiest and/or best way please.

Name: wanderer
Date: June 15, 2004 at 15:13:52 Pacific

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3 partitions. One 25meg big primary and active to hold the boot files of both. W2k on the 2nd and beta on the 3rd partition. This way if you trash one OS you can still get to the other. Otherwise its a standard MS multiboot of which there are 100's [if not 1000's] of how to's found on the web.

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Windows 2K will run on a 64 bit machine? Wow, thats good to know! :D Spinal

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