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by jhpjr1

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I have 98SE on my T20 ibm thinkpad with a hard drive with 4 5gig partitions. I am trying to install windows 2000 Professional as a dual boot. However, when I attempt to install Windows 2000 it only show my C drive as one big 20gig drive instead of drives c,d,e,f since I must load 2000 on d,e, or f. Need some specific instructions please.

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by thechas

Are you booting from the W2K CD?

If so, I suspect that you have some software on your drive, perhaps a BIOS overlay program that controls your partitions.
Check out Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q186057
to check for the drive overlay program.

If you do have a drive overlay program, you have 2 choices.
1. Remove the program, re-partition the drive, re-install everything.
2. Use a partition manager utility such as Partition Magic to partition the drive properly.

Chas

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