Dual Boot Win2K and WinME?

Start by using a third party software like Partition Magic or System Commander to create your partitions.
Using FDISK is a free utility to use only if you are not saving any data.
Partition size is a choice,yet Fdisk will only recognize the maximum DOS partition,third party software is best to use to set prefered partition size
I would install WIN ME first,creating the MBR files,and then Install WIN2K,on the second partition
I have a minimum of 2G partitions on a dual boot machine.

Create a partition of at least 1GB to accomodate Windows ME and its program files. This will be your boot drive (C:) and the file system should remain FAT16 or FAT32 (Use Fdisk and Format on a boot disk or a third party utility). After you have installed ME, then use the CD-ROM for Windows 2000 and boot from it to run Win2K setup. During setup create at least a 2 GB partition for Win2K and its program files folder. Do not install them on the same partition, although they will both use the same boot drive.

Use FAT 32 on all drives that you want ME to be able to see (unless they are smaller than 512 MB - FAT16 in this case). You can format the Windows 2000 partition with NTFS just so long as you don't do that to the C: drive (boot drive).If ME boots it wont be able to see the NTFS drives at all (though they sometimes show up in My Computer as damaged).

We had this at my school:
The computers had a 10GB drive. We had ME loaded first on a 6GB partition. And we had Win 2000 loaded on a second partion with the remaining 4GB's using NTFS. We liked this because users using the ME were not even ableto see the the NTFS partition. FAT32 and NTFS can be used on the same drive as long as you use the FAT partition first.

The best practice i have found is if you have 2 Hd's install Me on 1 of them. Then bo into the bios and change the harddrive to boo to hte other drive. Then you can go about installing W2K. This settup allows for some fault tollerance. If the boot sector on the Win Me fails you still have the boot sector on the W2k and can copy you data to the other drive.

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Thank you all for responding to my question. This is the first question I have posted. So this was also a learning experience. I should be attempting the dual boot in the next week. so I'll let you know then how it went and what I did. Thanks again.