Hiya Phil Sorry for the wrong URL sent out earlier. Here's the right one: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306559 Sorry about that. Got what Jackie wanted mixed up with what you wanted! Tonia Tonia <ltonwannabe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Phil Here ya go! All you need to know about dual / multiboot with WinXP. Remember it's important to follow the order of installation. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/client/prousability.asp Hope that helps Tonia Nigel wrote: Dual booting and maintaining several partitions are two quite different things. Partition magic is a great program and it does a really good job of creating and maintaining partitions. You need something else to provide the dual boot capability - it used to be easy with W98, NT4, W2k etc, but I haven't yet tried with XP. You will find that one or other of the operating systems must be installed first and the other (or others) subsequently. It is probably quite easy with the lilo loader that comes with linux, but once again, the os's must be installed in the right order. Hopefully this is the start of the good advice! Cheers Nigel > Hello - and help. My name is Phil and I have just joined this group upon the advice of one who is already a member. Said I could get some good advice here. > > My problem is this. I recently 'had' to buy a new computer because the motherboard in the old one cooked. Hey, if you need a reason, I figured that was a good one. The new one came with Windows XP Pro, thought this would be a good idea. Not. I have lost the use of several programs that I used a lot and the use of my scanner. Past its prime and not to be supported by HP or MS under the XP regime, so the story goes. The one good thing to happen was that the TMSScheduler (DOS) still works. However the Talk Scheduler (Access 97) does not. (I also moved up to Office Pro XP from Office Pro 97) I had converted the original Talk Scheduler program to 97 so that I could change some of the forms as the originals were leaving some information off. Some of the other Access files converted to the new program just fine, others not so fine. A hit and miss adventure. > > The new machine has an 80 GB HDD, no partitions. Run Speed Disk on that! I was advised to get a program, such as Partition Magic and divide it up into more meaningful segments. I have a lot of real estate so why not. While looking at this type of program on the net, I found that they talked about dual booting. If I could do that then I could get my old programs reloaded and files to work and scanner back. Then my hands started getting sweaty like just before getting up and giving a major talk. I know nothing about either of these aspects. Of course all the information from the software company is glowing about how wonderful its product is. Then there are the stories floating around about how horrible things have happened to some who have gone this path. I don't want to run into a problem such that I might have to start all over again because of some little oversight or quirk in some program that 'everyone' knows about, but me. I have heard to many things about this registration thing with MS and XP. I've already had one program that came with the computer stop working on me after 30 days because I hadn't registered it after looking at it once. Still haven't got it running. > > The question I have is, does anyone have any experience using Vcom System Commander 7 or Power Quest Partition Magic for partitioning a large HDD and setting it up for a dual boot using different file systems. Which would be the easier program, or is there a better program out there to do this? What kind of problems might I run into? I want to run XP and 98SE off the same HDD so I can get my old programs and equipment working again. > > Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Phil Beasley > Grover Beach, CA > potgn@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Get personalised at My Yahoo!. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Get personalised at My Yahoo!.