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Dual-bootup perfomance

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by cwleng

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I have a 64MB SDRAM in a computer running on the processor speed of 400Mhz.I would like to know
whether if I configured my computer to dual boot-up between Windows 98 and Windows 2000Pro,
will it totally effect or slow down my whole system when I load and run on one of the operating
system.
Please advise.
Thank you

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by beermonster

In short, no. once the bootstrap protocol has loaded the OS of your choice, that OS has FULL and TOTAL use of the resources. At that point, the other OS is nothing more than a series of flat files on your hard drive.....

by whoopi cushion

I am running a similar dual-boot on my pc as we speak. The only delay I deal with is during the boot when I am given a 30 second window to select which OS I wish to boot.

by ebob

I concur with the other responses in that you won't be adversely affecting the operation by setting up a dual boot, but with a couple of considerations:

1 - disk space
You need enough disk space, generally on "C:\", for swap space and so on (configurable). Make sure you don't use it all up loading up extra O/S's.
2 - hardware spec
64MB and Win2K is minimal. Which means that you might be able to get Win2K up and running, but you might not be able to get much in the way of apps running.

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