MCSE : Security Specialist
Dual boot Windows 9x/Windows NT 4.0/2000
Windows 2000 supports multiple booting with MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows
3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 3.51, and Windows NT 4.0.
If
you intend to create a dual-boot system with Windows NT 4.0 and
Windows 2000 as the only installed operating systems, you must
ensure that you have installed Service Pack 4 for Windows NT 4.0.
Windows 2000 will automatically upgrade any NTFS partitions it finds
on your system to NTFS 5. Windows NT 4.0 requires Service Pack 4 to
be able to read and write files on an NTFS 5 volume.
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Each operating system should be installed on a separate drive or
disk partition.
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You should use a FAT file system for dual-boot configurations.
Although using NTFS in a dual boot is supported, such a
configuration introduces additional complexity into the choice
of file systems.
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You cannot install both Windows 95 and Windows 98 in a
multiple-boot configuration. Windows 98 is intended as an
upgrade to Windows 95 and will try to use the same boot file.
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To set up a dual-boot configuration between MS-DOS or Windows 95
and Windows 2000, you should install Windows 2000 last.
Otherwise, important files needed to start Windows 2000 could be
overwritten.
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For a dual boot between Windows 98 and Windows 2000, it isn't
necessary to install the operating systems in a particular
order.
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For a dual boot of Windows 2000 with Windows 95 or MS-DOS, the
primary partition must be formatted as FAT; for a dual boot with
Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98, the primary partition must be
formatted as FAT or FAT32, not NTFS.
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If you're upgrading a dual-boot computer, you can't gain access
to NTFS partitions from any operating system other than Windows
NT 4.0 with SP4.
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If you install Windows 2000 on a computer that dual boots OS/2
and MS-DOS, Windows 2000 Setup configures your system so you can
dual boot between Windows 2000 and the operating system (MS-DOS
or OS/2) you most recently used before running Windows 2000
Setup.
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Don't install Windows 2000 on a compressed drive unless the
drive was compressed with the NTFS file system compression
utility.
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Windows 95 or Windows 98 might reconfigure hardware settings the
first time you use them, which can cause problems if you're dual
booting with Windows 2000. So run these OS's first before
installing 2000.
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If you want your programs to run on both operating systems on a
dual-boot computer, you need to install them from within each
operating system. You can't share programs across operating
systems.
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