Jim


On Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 9:27 am, C K wrote:
>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.
>
>
>

Written in response to: re: Dell: XP after Vista! (C K: Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 9:27 am) There are presently no replies to this message.

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