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by khanna005 Feb 28, 2003 last reply May 29, 2003

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My system has 4 partition(C,D,E,F) of 10 Gb each . In C drive I have windows 98 SE installed and in E drive I have Windows XP Professional installed . I want to install Windows 2k in my computer . What is the best way to do that ?

At present the system is in dual boot mode ( Win 98 and Win xp)

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by rboggio1 Feb 28, 2003

Since you already have the PC dual booting between xp and 98 that option is out. Because it is windows you are tring to run on multiple partions you will need to get sometype of boot manager. There are several choices out there. PC Commander is pretty good but the last time I used it there was some problems with XP.

by khanna005 May 29, 2003

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by Member 26962261 Feb 28, 2003

Install your Windows 2000 on your available partition d or F. By default Windows will setup you Boot.ini file. Your boot.ini should contain something like that-->
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[Operating Systems]
C:\="Windows 98"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Windows 98"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

by khanna005 May 29, 2003

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by netuser Feb 28, 2003

If I were you, I would Upgrade Win98 to Win2k. But anyway, you can install Win2k on any available partition but I think it's better if you let win2k create and format the partition.