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| 248111 | 2004-06-28 02:54:00 | I have a trial copy of xp professional i wanna try out but i also have 3 partitions on my hdd, all 3 are ntfs and 2 are 12gigs and 1 is 8gig and empty... can I just install the pro onto the empty 8gig and have a daul boot and have ability to chose xp pro or ME....and when i finish with my trial version just right click on the partition and reformat it.. |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 248112 | 2004-06-28 04:21:00 | Do you already have a dual boot installed or if not what Windows boots? | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 248113 | 2004-06-28 04:28:00 | > I have a trial copy of xp professional i wanna try > out but i also have 3 partitions on my hdd, all 3 are > ntfs and 2 are 12gigs and 1 is 8gig and empty... > > can I just install the pro onto the empty 8gig and > have a daul boot and have ability to chose xp pro or > ME....and when i finish with my trial version just > right click on the partition and reformat it.. If all partitions are NTFS, then you can't use Windows ME which can only understand FAT16 and FAT32. -- Juha |
juha (761) | ||
| 248114 | 2004-06-28 06:26:00 | > If all partitions are NTFS, then you can't use Windows ME which can only understand FAT16 and FAT32. It should be able to detect both partitions and let you boot into either. When you boot into the WinME partition you just won't be able to see any of the NTFS partitions. I've dualbooted with Win98 and XP a number of times, why would WinME be any different? |
kiki (762) | ||
| 248115 | 2004-06-28 07:18:00 | No > I have a trial copy of xp professional i wanna try > out but i also have 3 partitions on my hdd, all 3 are > ntfs and 2 are 12gigs and 1 is 8gig and empty . . . Me is DOS based and will not install on an NTFS formated partition . > > can I just install the pro onto the empty 8gig and > have a daul boot and have ability to chose xp pro or > ME . . . . and when i finish with my trial version just > right click on the partition and reformat it . . > The system files in the boot partition require modification . If you don't want to hear the answer, do not ask the question - Bill Tisdale |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 248116 | 2004-06-28 08:17:00 | > Me is DOS based and will not install on an NTFS formated partition. I would've thought that would be pretty self evident. |
kiki (762) | ||
| 248117 | 2004-06-29 06:13:00 | > > If all partitions are NTFS, then you can't use > Windows ME which can only understand FAT16 and > FAT32. > > It should be able to detect both partitions and let > you boot into either. When you boot into the WinME > partition you just won't be able to see any of the > NTFS partitions. I've dualbooted with Win98 and XP a > number of times, why would WinME be any different? You've managed to install Win98 on an NTFS partition? -- Juha |
juha (761) | ||
| 248118 | 2004-06-29 06:55:00 | > You've managed to install Win98 on an NTFS partition? Yes, VMware. :p But if you want to run it native you have to format it as fat32 of course. |
kiki (762) | ||
| 248119 | 2004-06-29 08:59:00 | So here we go again. > I have a trial copy of xp professional i wanna try > out but i also have 3 partitions on my hdd, all 3 are > ntfs and 2 are 12gigs and 1 is 8gig and empty... So you have one physical hard drive with three partitions and ALL partitions use the NTFS file system. So we have one active partition being C: drive containing WinME formatted as NTFS 12 Gigs? I find this hard to believe. Possibly Drive D: also formatted as NTFS readable under WinME and 12 Gigs again. Possibly used as a data drive??? Possibly drive E: formatted as NTFS and empty? What optical drives do you have? What drive letters are used there? Is the FIRST partition on the ONE hard drive you have the Primary partiton? The second partition being Extended may contain one or more partitions each of which could contain one or more logical drives. > > can I just install the pro onto the empty 8gig and > have a daul boot and have ability to chose xp pro or > ME....and when i finish with my trial version just > right click on the partition and reformat it.. You can install XP Pro on an empty partition and 8 Gigs will be enough. You can have a dual boot also. Removing will not be as simple as what you think. Are you using a third party hard disk formatter that will allow you to use the NTFS file system under WinME? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 248120 | 2004-06-29 09:19:00 | > > If all partitions are NTFS, then you can't use > Windows ME which can only understand FAT16 and > FAT32. > > It should be able to detect both partitions and let > you boot into either. When you boot into the WinME > partition you just won't be able to see any of the > NTFS partitions. I've dualbooted with Win98 and XP a > number of times, why would WinME be any different? I don't believe that WinME is actually installed on one hard drive with three partitons ALL of which we were told were NTFS. You may read it differently to what I saw though. |
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