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Dualbooting XP and 2000
Name: Ram Date: May 13, 2003 at 17:00:44 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: AMD 2700, 512 DDRAM
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Hey, Im just about done building my computer and I am getting a new 80 Gb harddrive with no OS. I want to multiboot this system with 2000 Pro and XP. How should I go about doing this? What OS should I install first? Should I create partitions for each OS? Is there something different that I need to do? Help! Thanks
Take it from me, Use seperate partitions. I have a few problems from installing them in same partition. I did it by accident but never changed it.
Install win 2000 first in your partition and xp second in the next partition.
You might want to partition it into 3rd's if you want to keep important files etc.
say 10 gig for 2000, 10 gig for xp and the rest for storage. Just depends on how many programs you intend to run on each partition.
I have xp and 2000 on a 40 gig which I will be trying to format and partition soon and an 80 gig just for backing up my mp3's, pics and other programs/files safely.
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