Dual booting Win2K/XP Pro

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Charlie

Hi all,

Hope someone can help:

My machine currently has Windows XP running on it. I have an unused
hard drive and would like to install Windows 2000 on it in order to
dual boot. How can I do this without touching my XP installation? I
have been reading that you need to install the OSs in the correct
order (earliest first) which would obiviously mean 2k then XP. But I
don't want to mess up my XP install. Help!

Thanks

Charlie.
 
My machine currently has Windows XP running on it. I have an unused
hard drive and would like to install Windows 2000 on it in order to
dual boot. How can I do this without touching my XP installation? I
have been reading that you need to install the OSs in the correct
order (earliest first) which would obiviously mean 2k then XP. But I
don't want to mess up my XP install. Help!
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You may want to look into a 3rd party boot manager
 
1. Install the unused hard drive as slave to the existing (Win XP)
hard drive.
2. Boot from Windows 2000 CD and install to the slave hard drive.
3. When installation is complete, boot to the new Windows 2000
installation.
4. Place Windows XP CD in CD drive and copy ntdetect.com and ntldr
files from I386 folder of CD to C:\.
 
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