Your opinions please

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Hi Guys

I have 2 old pc's and the current 1 i use day to day.

I have heard about a program called "partition magic" which i was going to use on 1 pc, split the hard drive and add windows 98 to 1 partition and windows 2000 pro to the other.

The other pc i was going to use to, as you say "get my hands dirty"

just wanted your thoughts

thanks

Sim35

 

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Sounds good!

Might be worth sticking XP onto the second PC as well though. What is the point in having a PC without an OS to play with!
During the course of your studies you may find that you have to reinstall the OS several times, just to test out different things.

 

Doh!!!

 

You don't need Partition Magic to do what you propose to do.

When installing Win98 (which you should do first) create a partition with fdisk. Then when you install Win2k create a partition with the leftover space.

Harry.

 

My thoughts... Hmmm well yes do as Harry stated assuming the hardware is capable of running W2K or XP?

You should try installing W2K from the command prompt and type...

D:\i386\winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly (assuming D is your CD drive letter)

This will produce a report that will show you whether the hardware and software are compatible, without actually installing anything on the system.

 

Hi,

If you do use a partitioning tool don't forget to format it in FAT32 or you won't be able to dual boot....

 

Thanks for your opinions guys...cheers!

will be getting hands dirty soon enough, no doubt!

Sim35.