dual+booting

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(Submitted by 'Wudpecker' Wallace)
 * Dual Booting in WIN XP**

QUESTION - Information for dual booting a PC using WIN XP.

ANSWER

1. If installing XP, choose "New Install". Do not choose "Update" or your old Windows Version will be overwritten. If you are running Windows 98 (the most friendly version to EAW), you want to keep it available, so choose "New Install" for Win XP.

2. If XP is already installed, you can add another operating system in a new drive or partition on your current drive. Win98 insists on being "C:\" drive.


 * More--**

Windows XP, if installed so it doesn't over-write the old Windows version, will offer a dual boot at each startup (and restart).

You have about ten seconds (adjustable) to choose your boot-up program of XP or another version of Windows. This can be adjusted to a longer time by editing the file **"BOOT.ini"** in your base XP directory. It can also be found under **Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Startup and Recovery.**

Windows 98 will allow you to keep many old settings and choose your EAW .exes without extensive changes under XP. If you already over-written old Windows files, you can add a dual-boot by reinstalling another version, say of Win98, in another partition or hard drive. (It might work work in the same drive with XP, like C:\--- but I doubt it.).

Yes, it gripes and warns your new install may not work. But it does it. It automatically searches for other Windows versions. You may have to insert the XP Pro CD.

Don't know about Linux detection for a dual boot, but it mentions "other" operating systems are detected.

By picking the "R" (repair) option on a 2nd install of XP Pro, you can even dual boot XP itself as well--though to do this you have to type "help" on the altered DOS-like programs that come up, and be sure and read each one with "help" before using! They are powerful.

HELP (for the DOS-like list) and HELP BOOTFIX for the dual boot of another XP. BOOTFIX does it in this case of a second XP boot (I just hit "Enter", leaving a "blank" boot position, but you can name or number your XP boot as you like).