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by drjhaynes

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I recently upgraded my Wim ME based system to Win XP using a clean install. I am very happy with the new OS,but, am unable to install and run the Nortel Networks extranet client software that my hospital uses for VPN. I have Partition Magic 7.0, can I install this program when booted to WinME without the other OS "seeing" it and it causing conflicts?

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by silverfireiii

Yes, if you partition the hard drive and dual boot the system. Just make sure you add windows me to the boot.ini and the boot directly into windows ME. The computer will not load anything from XPand it will be like XP is not even there. I would check with Nortel Networks and see if they have come out with any updates that will work with XP. That way you can just use XP and not have to worry about taking up space with Windows ME. There should be a way to make it work on XP.

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