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Dual booting 2kPro and Advanced server

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by astonmc

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I am trying to set up my computer at home to have both operating systems on it.I already have professional installed with some data on it and would like to now have advanced server as well just to play around with the tools and get more familiar with it.
1) Can this be done?
2) Which is the easiest and safest way to do this?

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by fred king

Dual booting is possible.
Usually the easiest and safest way would be another harddrive.
Although it should work if you make a partition and format it before you start to installing the second OS.

Hope it works for you.

by curacao_dejavu

If you have at least 2 partitions it will work. Just install the 2nd OS on the 2nd partition (>2GB recommended) and you are done.try to keep the os of w2k pro and data on 1st partition and the os of w2k a.s. and data on the other partition.

by ins413

Very easy and very safe...Boot to pro. Insert Adv. Srv. disk and let autoplay take over. You will get an error stating that you cannot upgrade from pro to server. Click O.K. Then do a clean install of server on the same partition. Very easy andvery safe.....Downside to this is that it is a little complicated to uninstall server when you are done playing with it. If you plan to uninstall, then I would suggest two partitions or two drives. Otherwise, it works just fine.

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