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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (11306)	9/24/2000 11:00:18 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I have several options regarding win2k installation...buy an update disk. wipe out everything and start new....( put win2k on a 6.4 drive I have and use my 18g win98 as Drive D ) But, I am unfamiliar w/ running multiple operating systems...I assume this will work? but is it practical? Depending on your applications 6.4 gig may be a bit small for a primary drive. It seems like you need 2 gig just for the OS and the essential aps. Multiple operating systems should be the exception rather than the rule. However there are times when they make sense. I use them if I have to maintain legacy applications that a new OS does not support. Also keeping an old working OS around for awhile is a good idea. You have a couple of options. 1. Use a boot manager to select the OS of choice. You will get a selection screen at boot up. 2. Use the mainboard bios to select the boot drive. If I have an option (must be supported by mainboard bios) and the second OS is not NT I choose the later. In your case it would involve removing the Win9x harddrive then installing the new harddrive as the only drive on primary channel 1 and installing 2000 on it. Then reinstall the old harddrive. When you want to boot the Win9x drive go into the bios and change boot drive order. The above is not a good solution if you are setting up a multiple boot for someone else. You generally don't want people lurking around the bios. There are several boot managers. NT comes with an OS manager. I can't help with the install details and I don't know if 2000 is the same as NT. If you setup your harddrives such that the new NT drive is the primary drive on IDE channel 1 then the 2000 install may automate the process during the install process and create the OS boot manager for you . Zeuspaul