No..  You can't just do that.  Portables most often have proprietary drivers so you 
need to have the correct drivers for W2K.  Next, you will need to wipe out the drive 
and most manufacturers will void the warranty and refuse to support your new machine 
when you do this.

As for dual booting, you can't do that either as there is no free space on the drive 
most likely.  You would need to use a utility not included with Windows to shrink 
the partition and setup an extended partition/logical drive to run two operating 
systems.  Doing so can crash an NTFS formated drive.

Setting up dual booting with the MS boot manager requires that you install the newest 
operating system last, not first when using the MS recommended way of doing it.

Bottom line?  I would leaved it alone unless you know exactly what you are doing 
and know you have the correct W2K drivers for the hardware, if there are any.  W2K 
is old and MS isn't working on new drivers.  They need to be supplied from the hardware 
manufacturer so you would need to ask the manufacturer of the computer to see if 
there are any before trying it.  If you do, make sure you have the recovery options 
from the manufacturer tested and ready to go to get the machine operational again.







On Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 6:08 am, Jim O'Calaghan wrote:

>Hi DNA, I'm afraid I don't understand your post (I'm a bit slow)  Can I install 
2k 

>on an already loaded Vista? XP doesn't feature atall.  I have the 2k disk, can I 

>put it in and let rip without too much hassle? Cheers.

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Jim 

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