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by **Carl Dilibert** » Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:25:06

I am building a new machine that I would like to dual boot
between Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
Professional. I have one 40 GB drive that I was going to
partition off, one per OS. I created a W2KPro install on
the first partition, and am getting ready to install XP
into the second partition. What happens if I blow away
the W2K Pro partition and reinstall? Will this leave my
XP Pro unbootable?

Please respond by email if possible.

by **Nutcas** » Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:04:30

Hi Carl,

Sorry, no support by e-mail.

Depends on where the boot files go. They should be installed to the root of the boot partition. If this happens to be the W2K partition, then the boot files will be overwritten or wiped if you either a) reinstall W2K or b) format that partition. Not really a big deal anyways, as you can boot the WinXP CD afterwards and run a repair from the recovery console.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Associate Expert - Windows XP
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
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> I am building a new machine that I would like to dual boot
> between Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
> Professional. I have one 40 GB drive that I was going to
> partition off, one per OS. I created a W2KPro install on
> the first partition, and am getting ready to install XP
> into the second partition. What happens if I blow away
> the W2K Pro partition and reinstall? Will this leave my
> XP Pro unbootable?

> Please respond by email if possible.

by **Andy** » Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:45:13

If you want to do that, save ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini
after Windows XP has been installed.
After you're done reinstalling W2K, copy the saved files
back to C:\.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:25:06 -0800, "Carl Diliberto"

>I am building a new machine that I would like to dual boot
>between Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
>Professional. I have one 40 GB drive that I was going to
>partition off, one per OS. I created a W2KPro install on
>the first partition, and am getting ready to install XP
>into the second partition. What happens if I blow away
>the W2K Pro partition and reinstall? Will this leave my
>XP Pro unbootable?

>Please respond by email if possible.

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