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36566	2002-02-21 10:58:00	WinMe, 1.2 AMD Athlon, 256mb ram, 30gb hdd 10gb free. I'm a newbie to this sort of thing so any advice greatfully received. I want to load XP the weekend as a dual boot with Me. Do I have to partition part of the hard drive for XP to go onto, or will XP do that itself? What about my folders on Me. What happens to them? Do they just stay there and remain accessible only to Me? or does the instal of XP destroy the data? How much hard drive space does XP use, and how much free space will Me need to work properly? Cheers.	Guest (0)
36567	2002-02-21 23:46:00	OK...I did this last weekend with Win98, WinXP and Linux. There are a few different ways to approach it but heres what I did. It's best to install XP in it's own partition so you'll need to do that first. If you have Partition Magic (or similar)it should be a breeze. Just resize your primary Me partition and create a second NTFS (or whatever you want) partiton to install XP into. XP setup will give you option of where you would like to install it, simply choose your newly created partiton and go for it. XP will give you the choice of booting between Me and itself when you boot from now on. All your partitions will be visible to one and other. For this method to work you need to instal the oldest OS first. Alternatively you could try a third party boot manager, I've never tried them as this method works just fine for me. Perhaps the trickiest part is setting up your partitons if you dont have a partition managment tool. FDISK will do the trick but you'll be starting from scratch. I tried installing XP alongside Win98 on the SAME partition...as a test...it actually worked just fine but I wasn't to comfortable with that setup. Hope this is some help to you.	Guest (0)
36568	2002-02-21 23:54:00	Oh....and my XP installation on a clean hard drive took up 1.5 gigs ... greedy bugger that it is. Im not sure exactly how much space Me needs to run but I should imagine you'll need to allow at least a few hundred megs spare for virtual memory to function.	Guest (0)
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