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Grub question - need help triple booting...
Drive C: must be FAT16 or FAT32 to be able to install Windows 98/Me after XP is already installed. The 98/Me installation routine cannot write to an NTFS partition. If your C: drive is not FAT or FAT32, you CANNOT complete this procedure. You will need a 3rd party boot manager. I recommend BootIt Next Generation,

Booting WindowsXP from LILO or GRUB?
I never was able to do it (actually I never was able to use BIOS boot manager to boot anything ecxept CD or floppy this way) In case of lilo the problem is, Install linux on second drive, tell lilo boot from partition not MBR and then add bootsector to XP boot menu. dd if=/dev/hdb of=linux.boot count=1,

Adding a hard drive
When you throw in Vista to the mix then you have to add the XP installations to the Vista boot loader, the XP boot loader (ntldr) cannot boot Vista, but the Vista loader can boot XP. There again, if you wish you can use a third party boot manager to boot Vista or XP. If you dual boot Vista and XP there are certain

Advice for adding a second HD with XP
Hold down the CTRL key for the Add Favorites system dialog. - Send To "Folder..." sends a file or files to another folder, you will be shown a dialog box that lets you .... Unlike other programs that can change the Windows XP boot screens, BootSkin does so in a safe manner. It doesn't patch the Windows XP kernel.

How to boot two OS?
F2 FreeBSD Default F2 I have the same problem in my laptop with 4.5-RELEASE and XP Pro. The problem is not the MBR but is the boot manager. Now the problem is that the BSD boot manager can't recognize NTFS so it does not know what to add in the F1 so it adds ???. A few days ago some guys in the list discuss the

DOS?
Appendix: Windows DDK Memory Management Enhancements Windows XP provides improved memory management. The memory manager provides the system services to allocate and .... The operating system instrumentation starts about one second after the boot loader loads. Overall boot time shown in Bootvis.exe should add BIOS

OS/2 & WinXP - How?
If I have to, or want to, I can boot into X: (wherever that is) from a Win2K/XP boot floppy, which contains nothing but the NT-style boot sector and system files. Will I end up "adding to the primary volume? When one elimininates a volume does it become part of the PREceeding or SICeeding volume?

Boot options with XP pro
It is probably better to use Microsoft's software to create your Linux primary and swap partitions anyway (assuming you are still trying to get Linux and XP configured as a dual boot system), as I have noticed at least one inconsistancy between Linux's cfdisk and NT's Disk Manager. I don't think you have to,

XP Pro and Red Hat 8.0 dual boot
I will try reloading a fresh XP Partition image and go from there. Thanks for your reply and any others that might have something to add. I will report back. David "Mike Richter" <mrich...@cpl.net> wrote in message news:3DCED71F.1AEF3A2@cpl.net... David wrote: I have a 2 week old Samsung 204B and a dual boot system

mega-boot for learning
Clean Install Windows XP http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html The XP boot loader will permit the booting of only one other Win95/98/ME OS along with XP. If you desire more, you will have to use a third-party boot manager. Paragon Partition Manager and BootManager http://www.paragon-gmbh.com Powerquest

Boot manager
This using the standard Windows XP boot manager, which is the same as the Windows 2000 boot manager. However, my own PC is not just my PC. Other people use it as well. They can take the nuisance of having to press enter or wait 30 seconds for Windows Me to allow for my beta testing practices, but adding another

OS/2 and XP : can coexist under BM ?
Yes, if you install XP to a separate logical partition, the XP boot manager will take over. If you make XP's partition NTFS, then you will be able to access Hello, I'm setting up a new partition for XP and I have some questions. I have WinMe on my C:\ Drive and am going to add the partition to that hard drive.

Upgrade from a7M266 to A7n8X
Edit boot.ini. Add " /noguiboot" right after "/fastdetect". Upon restarting, the splash screen will be gone. It can be re-enabled by removi ng the new switch. 3)Turn Off Indexing to Speed Up XP Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster.

Linux Newbie
When I had 98 I ran XP setup and it didnt other the 98 partition, but it recognised iot was there and created the bootmenu. So, it may well add another XP boot to the 98 and XP I have too. As 98 is C, my currenmt XP is on D, thats no problem I wont bother with a boot manager, the plain Windows one does the job,

Advice on Windows Boot Manager
Technically yes. However Win 2K and XP's boot manager is extremely dull. Persoanlly I prefer to use Partition Magic and it's Boot Magic. Boot Magic is far superior Currently I am dual booting ME/2K Pro and when I get a hold of the RC1 of XP I am planning on setting up a triple boot by adding XP into that mix.

MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!
You should first either add a hard drive to your system for Windows XP to be installed on, or use a non-destructive partitioning tool to free up some room for I see you plan on using a second hard drive for XP so by all means continue with that plan. That said, Windows XP includes its own boot manager that will

Adding Win2k
Access Bootmagic once installed to configure it - name and add the 98/XP partitions, set the default partition, countdown time, and tick the little box to The 98 partition will have some XP boot components installed on it, as hidden files in C:\ which will lead to problems if you use the XP bootmanager and

Need Help Partitioning Windows XP
Without the bootmanager, you will need to format the drive with XP and install 98, then XP. -- Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP Mstev...@mvps.org -----Original On a 98/Me Startup disk, created from Add/Remove Programs, its in the EBD.CAB file on the Startup disk. For a 98 Startup disk created from FAT32EBD.

dual booting linux/ windows XP. fdisk compatibility problem?
In addition to Ryan's response, you may want to consider other boot managers also. I triple boot XP, 2000 and Linux. I use a completely separate boot manager that basically just sets the active boot partition and then the OS takes over running its boot strap code from the HD partition. Easy to configure/add/replace

is MBR in the first partition ?
It's tempting to muck with the number of partitions (maybe add a new primary), change their order, etc., when cloning the HDs, it's seem smart to do this while you have the partition manager in front of you. BUT, the MS boot loader has lots of limitations, it's VERY sensitive to the location of your partitions,