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by jlyd

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Any suggestion on how I can add 2000Server on top of my XP OS for dual booting? I want to keep XP as is and use 2000srv as a secondary/alternate as I learn more about it--thanks

JL

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by silverfireiii

If you didn't already partition the hard drive, you could use a third party partitioning program like partition magic to do it. Or I would install a second hard drive. Then install Windows 2000 server on the new hard drive or the second partition. The Nt bootloader should automatically find both operating systems.
If it doesn't you can go in to the boot.ini file and add a second entry for the windows 2000 server installation. Or use a third party program called bootpart
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
to do it for you. There really is not much to it. Just make sure you install Windows 2000 Server to another drive or partition and add it to the boot.ini so that you can choose the one you want on startup.

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