Dual Boot with Windows XP and 2000 professional

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Duc Tran

I bought a new Dell System with Windows XP Home Edition
for my new Dental office. One of my existing software
applications won't support Windows XP. I tried to install
the Windows 2000 Professional, but the computer rejects to
continue the installation because it finds out the Windows
2000 Professional is older than the current O/S installed
in the system. Can I install a dual boot for my
computer ? If so, how I can do that ?

Thank you very much,
DT
 
Hi,

How to Install W2K to its own partition. Use a 98 Startup disk and run
WINNT.EXE from the I386 directory. After 2K is installed, boot with the XP
CD and at the Setup/Repair screen, choose Repair. In Recovery Console, use
the following commands:

1) FIXBOOT, answer Yes
2) CD \
3) ATTRIB -H NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -S NTLDR
5) ATTRIB -R NTLDR
6) ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
7) ATTRIB -S NTDETEC.COM
8) ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
9) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
10) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

In Steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.

How to Install W2K to its Own Partition after installing XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_2k.htm

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