Can U Dual boot Win XP with 2000 Server?

D-boy

1.Can U Dual boot Win XP with 2000 Server?

2.Whats the best way to have Win XP & Win 2000 Server on the same PC?

3.Is it possiable to dual boot these two Operating Systems?


I have a Dell PC with a 40GB hard drive and it meet's all the other requirements for installing both Operating Systems.
Yesterday night, I had Win XP Pro on the C: Drive & tried to install Win 2000 Server on another primary partition on the same hard drive and after I rebooted, with 2000 Server installed, i tried to boot to XP and it said "Systemd file is missing or corrupt". Has anyone else had this happen? I'm trying to build my Win 2000 lab before my exam next weekend! I have a hub and another Compaq PC with 2000 Server on it and also a laptop with Win 2000 Pro. I'm using my Dell as my home PC to also connect to the internet and just wanted to dual boot into Win 2000 server when I need to go through the MS press labs. I had FAT32 on the C: drive and NTFS on the 2000 Server partition.

By the way i had to do a repair on my XP installation

Any help will be welcome...

D-boy

Ricka182

I think you should install 2000 first, when dual booting with XP.

Drakonblayde

Yeah, they'll dual boot. Install them in the order they were released (ie, win2k first and then XP)

D-boy

Thank you both for your replys! Does it matter if I use NTFS?

RussS

D-boy wrote:

Thank you both for your replys! Does it matter if I use NTFS?

It is preferable if you do

Plantwiz

RussS wrote:

D-boy wrote:

Thank you both for your replys! Does it matter if I use NTFS?

It is preferable if you do

Agreed.

Only reason you should want to use FAT32 would be if you wanted Win98 to access partitions. No good reason to go backwards in OS at this point unless you just wanted to learn about mixed OS environments.