I am presently running Me on a 20g drive (C:\)with a Pentium III 866 on 256m ram. My second drive is also 20g partitioned D,E,F. I would like to dual boot with XP on D:\. I have done a search and installing XP poses no problems. The problem that does exist (and I can find no answers) is if I decide to remove XP from D: how do I do this? Delete, uninstall, format D: or what? The next problem (and a search reveals some strange and sometimes conflicting answers) is how do I remove the boot options that are created on start-up, ie: restore Me's original boot sequence? On another forum I read a post from someone who said that once having installed XP (as a dual boot) he found that changes he made to programmes in XP were duplicated in Me thus causing all sorts of problems. Is this possible?

I have never worked with 2 operating systems before, but i do try to help most people in the XP formum section. This question is frequently asked there, and answered. My advice: Read the XP Forum, aswers are there.

I dont know about removing xp but to remove the bootloader, boot with your ME boot disk and at the a: prompt type sys c:

you can remove xp by removing the xp partition on your hdd. boot your computer to msdos then do a fdisk /mbr to rewrite the boot record to boot to c:

I run several different OS's here at home: Windows 98 SE Windows 2000 pro Windows XP pro BeOS Linux Mandrake I have never had any problems with the OS's sharing system files except for the one time I installed Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on the same partition. After a few months both OS's degraded beyond repair. As long as you put them on different partitions they should not even notice each other. If, sometime in the future, you wish to delete Windows XP from your box... First, make sure you install XP on a FAT32 partiton, not NTFS as it is much easier to get rid of that way. Then you can just format the drive from within Windows ME by right clicking on it and choosing format. Once finished, you would boot with an ME boot disk and from the a:\> prompt type: sys c: This would transfer the boot files of ME to the MBR and overwrite the XP boot loader. fdisk /mbr does very little here.

it's so simple. run xp in fat32, if you want to get rid of it, simply format the d: drive from ME. then boot off the ME startup disk and type sys c: and that will get rid of the dual boot menu. i've done this about 5 times.

Thank you all for your replies and particularly newgrl... I always cut and paste your replies to Word and they get saved for future reference... this one will go the same way! Regards and compliments of the season to you all.