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WinMe-Win 2000 Dual Boot

Jan 6, 2005 11:07PM PST

Can someone point me in the right direction. I am using WinMe as C OS and want to either partition C Drive and then load Win2000 _or_ I have a USB HD and could load Win2000 there. I have the Win2000 CD, Partition Magic but am afraid to mess with it too much (newbie) and do not want to loose my WinMe files.

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Who's got your backup?
Jan 6, 2005 11:19PM PST

Hard disks fail all the time as well as slipups with the delete key.

If you are not ready for a total hard disk failure, then you are not ready to install any other OS.

Please complete your backup first.

Bob

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Backup
Jan 7, 2005 11:39AM PST

Bob,

Thanks . . . that's the first suggestion in the Partition Magic booklet and I do have backups. Any insight on the dual-boot OS?

hannon2u

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Then here's the drill...
Jan 7, 2005 12:05PM PST

Use partition magic to shrink the Windows ME install. Don't bother to create a partition out of the new free space. Figure 10 gigabytes minimum to run 2000.

Then boot and install the 2000 OS to that new partition.

Just sharing. When my wife's machine which has Windows ME burped and needed yet another fix, I went ahead and pushed in the WIndows 2000 CD and let it upgrade it. That machine has never run better. Goodbye ME.

Bob

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Thanks
Jan 11, 2005 12:17PM PST

Bob,

Thanks for the insight and advice. Also this is one of the first forums I've found since my (before AOL) compuserve formun days . . . how refreshing.

hannon2u