I recently purchased Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade for my pc. I have a Gateway Performance 933 with 256MB RAM, and two big hardrives (60 and 20 GB). My current operating system is Windows Me. Before I upgrade to XP, I want to dual boot with XP and Me. The reason I want to dual boot is because of all the software that is incompatible with XP. PC World also suggests dual booting in my situation. Right now, Windows Me is installed on my 60GB hardrive. I don't even use my other 20GB hardrive right now. It's more like extra storage to me, but it's practically empty. If I upgrade first, then install ME again to my other drive, will the dual-boot work? Or do I need to install an extra partition? If so, what are the proper steps in doing so? I would appreciate any assistance possible. Thanks!

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q307/8/48.asp?id=Q307848 Some links that will walk you through. I installed XP onto a new drive (WD 40GB ATA100 & 7200rpm, leaving W98 on it's original 13GB Maxtor. I used the "...from MS-DOS" (attached link) since I didn't want any W98 drivers\files inadvertently getting onto my XP drive. Your boot information does go onto your present C: or ME drive. So don't think you have to use FDISK or PartitionMagic to make the new drive active, you want to leave as your present C: drive. When you install your going to direct everything to D: (new drive) since any old drive partitions or logical drives like D:, E:, so on are now going to follow the "New D:" of the drive you installed most recent for XP. You may want to create some other partitions on the new drive to store data AND use the performance tip on page two of the following article. This sets up your ME/XP swap files on "each others disks" As you will find in the following article also, you can just run the XP setup from W98/ME/Win2K. With XP Professional you get option in beginning of setup for either Fresh Install(advanced) or upgrade. I'm not familiar with XP Home, you can exit setup if option not there and use the MS-DOS setup good luck http://www.8wire.com/articles/print_article.asp?printAID=2304