Re: Dual Boot for WinME and Win2000?
How you install your second OS is up to you entirely and yes, I answered
your question which was "is dual boot for Win Me and Window 2000
feasible?" mentioning that IMO the best method of so doing is to use a
third party boot manager. I also stated (by implication) that Ubuntu and
Win Me could be dual booted on the same system. As to your second
question whether I would recommend this for a home user, I intentionally
chose not to answer leaving that for you to decide for yourself. The term
home user covers a wide range of skills with many happily multi-booting
several OSs whilst others can barely use the one they have.
I have not used Boot Magic as a boot manager for about 8 years so am
unwilling to comment on how best to use this boot manager. I don't recall
PM's capabilities and have never used PM8 (it might have been PM6 I last
used) however I have a rule that I never allow any OS to see another using
my boot manager to either hide or remove from the partition table
partitions containing other OSs. I also tend to install into partitions
that I have already created but whether I format first or not depends on
the OS I am installing and I cannot recall the options available when
installing W2K. This may have changed but one feature of Boot Magic that
I did not like was that to use it it was installed on a partition
containing an operating system meaning that that partition has always to
be present although I'm guessing one could also boot from a floppy,
whereas a boot manager such as BING can be installed in its own 8MB
partition meaning that no OS is dependent on the presence of any other
partition with even the BING partition being hidden or removed from the
partition table when running the OS.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com
webster72n <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Mike.
> Even though your reply doesn't provide the direct answer to my
> question, it brings me to my follow-up question:
> Before installing Win2000 on the second drive with a yet
> "unallocated" file system (unformatted), should the drive be
> partitioned and formatted beforehand, or can this be done during
> installation?
> I have PM8, including BootMagic, installed to help me with the dual
> boot, as well as with any partitioning or other related problems,
> should they arise.