How to Dual Boot Two Versions of Windows
This article tells you how to dual boot two versions of Windows.
Steps
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Install the oldest version of Windows you want on one of the partitions/disks.
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Install the other version of Windows on the other partition/disk.
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These two versions of Windows create entries in your boot.ini on your first drive.
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Upon startup, you will get the OS selection screen asking which version of Windows you want to boot.
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Choose which Windows version to boot by selecting with the arrow keys and confirm with the enter key.
Tips
- Format your drives before installing, you can do that with Windows 2000 and above by checking make no file system changes
Warnings
- Make sure you install the oldest of the operating systems first. If for example you install Windows XP then Windows 98, the XP installation will fail to boot with a "cannot find ntoskrnl.exe" error.
- rdisk=Physical disk #
- partition=partition # of that rdisk
- multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
- You may want to backup your boot.ini file to a blank floppy or other bootable media, such as a USB flash drive, because if anything goes wrong you'll still be able to boot off of the media and restore the file.
- Sometimes Windows will fail to write an entry in your boot.ini, if this happens you'll need to do it manually
- This example assumes you've installed Windows 2000 pro on the first hard drive, 1st partition
Things You'll Need
- Blank floppy to backup your boot.ini
- Windows install disks
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