re: little help?
Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 12:16 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Derek
(30 messages posted)
HongWei,
I think you need to re-read his message. :) He specifically states that he wants
to dual boot his system (XP will not let me install any other version of windows
for dual booting), not install an older version of Windows ON TOP of XP.
Derek
On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:56 am, HongWei wrote:
>I think you didn't really answer his Q. What he meant was how to install an older
>version of Windows in WinXP for example. Newer windows will disallow that. Sadly,
>what you can do is to format your partition with Fat32 if it will be used for Windows9x/Me
>or NTFS for Win2000 or WinXP. If anybody knows a way to avoid from doing this, please
>do tell me
>
>
>On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:29 am, Derek wrote:
>
>I'm not very familiar with duel boot systems other than changing the boot menu to
>select which system you want to boot off of. However, what I HAVE done in the past,
>is to partition my hard drive and install the different version of Windows on that
>second partition. Then you can change your boot menu to use that partition [partition(2)]
>as an option to boot off of. You can use software such as Partition Magic to redo
>your partitions without using FDISK and losing everything you have.
>
>Hope this helps! If someone knows how to install two systems on the same partition,
>that would be interesting information to know. :)
>
>
>On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:22 am, Regulator75 wrote:
>XP will not let me install any other version of windows for dual booting. It keeps
>saying that "this version of windows is older, XP has disabled the setup function"
>
>This is very annoying. I want to install win2k or even 98se and it will not let
>me. WHY?
>
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