I've got a PII 233 MHz with 64 Meg RAM and a 10 Gig HDD. It currently has Windows 2000 Pro installed and working fine. I want to be able to dual boot to either Win2000 or NT 4.0. What's the best way to do this? It's no big deal if I have to wipe the drive clean and start from scratch. TIA!!

http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13884

from John Savill's NTFAQ's now at:

http://www.win2000mag.com

Otherwise...

youcould Fdisk etc; create a C: system (Active Primary) FAT16 partition around 500Meg (lots of HD space...) and copy over both i386's (suitably named to avoid confusion); install NT4 first from there, then W2K... Put both into separate logical-drives in the Extended partition.

Ideally need the FAT16 system area for both OS's to install their respective boot/start-up files there. FAT16 is the only common file format between all M$ OS's hence C: has to be FAT16... (although there are workarounds/fudges... if it 'has' to be FAT32...)

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http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8851

http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8824

both from within:

http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?IssueID=396

may be of value too... Some useful 'caveats' there... (September issue of Win2000mag.)

I had NT
put 2000 on an NTFS partion F: (clean Install)
The NT had certain registry problems so I backed up what I thought I needed, then Formatted C:. Boot.ini, NTLDR, ... were not backed up, and did not exist on the primary partition C: when I restarted. So I cursed then thought cool, my chance for Fresh NT to dual Boot with my Win2K. Installed NT onto the newly formatted C. Now explorer can't recognize any HDDs or partitions other than C:
i.e. can't access 2000.
Help!

You must upgrade your NT to Service Pack 4. Then it will be able to read Windows 2000 NTFS partitions.