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The Patriarch said:Yes, XP is on the new 120 GB drive. I would like to keep it there. I am wanting a dual boot system. The old hard drive now is just sitting there. I have some programs stored on it.
If you read my initial post, I just want to use ME to play some old games on it that will not work with XP.
I read the articles that Microbell referenced in his link. I am sort of wary of messing with my XP ini boot.
Gateway just replaced the motherboard in it and I had hard time getting XP to reinstall. I had to install ME and upgrade with my XP disk. XP wouldn't install directly from the disk. I don't want to do a reinstall.
I'm leaning towards the rack right now.
Thanks a lot for all the responses and input. I have learned something.
so you want to keep XP on the 120GB drive and install ME on the 40GB drive and you want XP to be the primary drive.
all you need to do is install ME to the 40GB drive and as Microbell said edit the boot.ini for the 2 OS's
when ME is installed go to start, run then type "C:\boot.ini" assuming the 120GB drive is master it will be C drive
to dual boot it should read
[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /fastdetect
D:\Windows="Microsoft Windows ME"
if you want it to call the OS by a different name you can change what is in the quotes to say "Windoze XP" or whatever you want