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by mayuresh

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hi ppl..

have win2k installed on my 40 gig.
i have onemore 4 gig hdd on which i want to ionstall winME...but io don't want to reinstall my win2k...
is there any way i can get win2k to detect my winMe on my second hdd and offer me a dual boot option.
i trie dxosl, but i can boot in me only if i choose to hide my first drive, which is pointless.

any help would be damm great...

thanx

Mayuresh

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by dmiles

Insert the WinMe into the drive and it will detect and first question would be to do a fresh install and then choose to specify the hard disk for Win Me install on the four gig
Once you have the set up and installation is complete you will notice adual-boot menu has been setup with the operating system,to change the order of which system to boot first,open Win2K and open the Control Panel,double-click the System Icon,choose the Advanced tab in this window and then select the Staartu- and recovery at bottom of window,click on arrow and in the drop down list you can change order of operating system.

by shiltowake

The disk WinMe is on will have to be the primary partition used for booting due to the dual boot. The Boot.ini file must be on a FAT partition in order for dual booting to occur. You can manaully edit this file with notepad etc as well if need be.

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