dual booyong WinXp and WinME 1

[Scotsdude]

Hey all.

quick question. Got a 10Gb HDD as primary master, partioned into 2Gb(C) and 8Gb(D) for WinME.

have just added a 20Gb(E) drive, which I'm gonna use for WinXP.

So far so good.

Started it ip this morning to make sure the ciomputer saw the drive, and found, to my surprise, the 20Gb drive was regsitering as drive D.

this is causiung problems as all my games and programs for WinME are on the old D drive, which is now E.

I'm going to install XP on the 20Gb drive, and reformat it to NTFS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but since WinME can't see NTFS, will this drive simply dissappear under ME?

If not, any ideas how I can sort this out?

cheers

Scotsdude

 

[jmatt]

Here are some sites that may help .

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This can be used repair file associations .

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Letter Assigner . ( Freeware )

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How to Prevent Drive Letters from Changing After You Add a Hard Disk or a CD-ROM (Q282530)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q282530

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[Scotsdude]

cheers jmatt.

I'm not bothered about seeing the winXP drive under WinME though. I'll be quite happy if it just doesn't exist, as far as WinME is concerned.

So, when XP is installed and the drive is NTFS, will WinME only see the original drives, as before?

Scotsdude

 

[jmatt]

Hav'nt tried it myself , but remember reading somewhere that XP has it's own boot manager , You should then have 2 independant systems .
Best if you research further .

 

[jmatt]

Here is read that should give you a guide , even though it does not mention ME .

http://windows.about.com/gi/dynamic.../pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/multiboot.asp

 

[jmatt]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q306559#6

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/default.asp

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Scotsdude - your hunch is correct. Installing XP onto an NTFS partition on the new drive will do exactly this - effectively mask the drive from Win9x/ME.

What has happened is that by using fdisk to create the partition, you created a primary partition on your new drive. This muscled its way in as drive D: If you had created an extended partition, and logical drives within that, then you should have found that the drives would have started at E:

Simply blat the existing partitions in fdisk and install XP. During the install, it will ask if you want to create a new NTFS partition in the unpartitioned space, and all will be well. It installs ntldr, which will manage booting between O/Ses for you.

I hope this helps
CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[Scotsdude]

Citrix,

Would I be better running Xp setup from within WindowsME, or should I just boot directly from the CD?By the way, who thinks my crap spelling in the title has generated a rather funky sounding word?

Scotsdude

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Either way will work. I'd say that running setup from within ME is easier, since the setup starts automatically. If you boot from the CD, you have to go through the effort of cd'ing into i386, etc...

Booyong. Very funky.

CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk