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Talking about OS's and a concept of creating apps easy
Depending on the pre-existing partition scheme, this method can reformat an existing partition or create a new one in previously unallocated space. To delete either copy of Win2K, all that is required is to remove the x:\WinNT (or x:\Windows) folder, then edit boot.ini to remove the one line that points to that

Reverting back to XP from Vista
The easiest way to do it though is to install windows on C: then install win2k from in windows and it will ask you if you wish to leave the current OS and FAT in tack. which will create an automatic dual boot system. So in your situation I would suggest that you install windows 98 as your primary OS on C:\ next

$reward$ NT4 setup error
... as I'd read that this required "lots of room " I used PM 7.0 to resize C: to 10 Gb ( taking space from E:) and then creating another partiton of 5Gb from this enlarged partition which PM named K: - This was also an NTFS partiton. I then installed XP into this partition and thus created a Dual Boot situation

create another partition on emachine
BobDelaney BobDela...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment You will find PartitionMagic extremely useful for creating and resizing partitions on either hard disk, but with Windows XP, BootMagic's utility depends on how you set up your dual-boot configuration. The boot files for **both** operating

creating bootable floppy diskette
Help appreciated. More info required. Which operating system are you currently in? What does it tell you when you attempt to use Dual Boot? If it's anything except the BOOT.OS2 or BOOT.DOS files then you can probably create one of the right name from a backup copy lying around somewhere. If it's one of the boot

Drive letters Shift via Dual Boot
... HOW TO: Create a Multiple-Boot System with Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306559 How to Set Up Dual Boot After You Questions: 1) Can I have a 98SE/XP dual partition? or a 98SE/Win2K? 2) What prep is required...for example, do I need two separate drives or can the two

Creating a dual boot system with 1 OS
If problem is in burning, look at background programs and turn them all off (Start - Run - "msconfig" - StartUp - Disable all (required for Windows will reset and Some editors create a separate user for even dual boot for this purpose. Have you watched complete file on the PC before burning? If that is clean,

I want to migrate to Linux
I intend to make my system dual boot Windows and FreeBSD. I have shrunk the existing partition to around 3GB using Partition Magic and left just over 1GB for days on that ole' P166 :-) For that small a disk I'd recommend just creating two partitions - swap (I know everybody blindly tells you to use RAMx2,

win98/linux dual boot...partition effect registry?
Boot to 95 and install the Novell client, then when you install NT you have the option to create a computer account in a domain (provided you have administrator details). Actually, you could diskcopy the disk 1 of the startup disks. Delete all the files on it. Copy over the required boot files to a: Boot from the

Help Required with NT4 installation
I realize that both OSs will put boot files on C. This should make it possible to reclaim the D drive latter if I no longer need to dual boot to Windows 98? No problems there. Read on. Now to add to these answers I'd suggest creating a small primary partition of say about 100MB (larger is really not required).

How to make dual partition?
BootMulti= Enables dual-boot capabilities. The default is 0. Setting this value to 1 enables the ability to start MS-DOS by pressing F4 or by pressing F8 to use the Windows Setting this value to 1 enables double-buffering, if required by the SCSI controller. DrvSpace= Enables automatic loading of DRVSPACE.BIN.

I have screwed up my DNS service
Since you did get that message, maybe you should ask Dell or Seagate if any special drivers are required - and where to get them. I do not have a sloppy drive, but presumably I can use the Then boot from the Vista DVD-ROM and let it create the dual-boot system as it installs Vista into a different partition.

freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 239, Issue 4
Although practically speaking that's a relatively accurate statement from young Lorne for a native (non dual boot)Warp install it's not strictly true in the implication that it's solely limited to having to boot from a PC/MS DOS installation in order to subsequently create a bootable DOS diskette.

Creating dual boot XP
I also happen to think Vista was a waste of money and I would not have purchased it had it not been for the fact that my college required me to upgrade to Fortunately that particular person has a dual boot system with XP. And guess what OS he uses? XP! He boots to vista from time to time just so he can say that

Win95: Dual Boot option?
Well use partimage or mondo to create images of your Windows partitions if you dual boot. If not DL Knoppix 3.4 and use that. New versions of all three can write to NTFS with caveats, IIRC. PQ Drive Image 7 comes with DI 2002. -- Parko Registered Linux User #339345 Defenestrate Windows!

(LONG) SOLVED (Mostly): Samba, PAM, Authentication off an NT Domain
A question - do you need to create two partitions, one for windows and one for mac? In essence you might have the same file in 2 places, or not? .... I really would like to know if you use one or two partitions for the dual boot. You can split partitions if you want with Boot Camp or something, then you would have

Dual boot
Leonard Evens l...@math.nwu.edu comp os linux misc Sean Smith wrote: hi, if i do a dual boot of redhat and win98 (already installed), when i create the partitions for linux would that (In that case, Windows wanted to format the drive, and it required some fiddling in the device manager to convince it not to try.

Creating a dual boot so I can use Vista or XP
You have the boot disk that it prompted you to create when you first installed, right? Now is when you use it. Or, you could use the generic floppy that came in the box. What does "which stalls when started" mean? Are you getting erorr messages? Bow Shock Wave wrote: I have a dual boot Caldera / Windoze box,

new NT install (dual boot) on large drive
Boot with your NT setup disks (with the new atapi.sys) and follow setup as normal 4. When it asks where you want to install NT choose to create a new in the sparse doc I recieved) and would that likely enable me to procede? or Is some other drastic measures likely to be required to set this dual boot up?

Windows XP Pro Dual Boot De-mystification Required
By the other responses, don't get the impression that a separate boot manager is required. Windows 2000 includes its own boot manager that works perfectly fine for a dual boot with 98. It's really very easy to set up. Create a FAT32 partition for Windows 98, taking only as much of the drive as you want for the 98