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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:51:18 -0700, Mike Campbell <ug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Of course your mileage most certainly WILL vary, but I've been told of
>several horror stories of upgrading to Win 2K. (Although, once
>installed, people have had excellent success).
>
>That said, I've been told to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall
>from scratch. Save yourself a lot of headaches by doing a fresh
>install rather than upgrade.
>
I've had no problems at all installing Win2000 to dual-boot over
Win98. The key is that you MUST install Win2000 into a separate
partition, like a D: drive. (Otherwise some files in c:\program files
conflict). Win2000 will automatically install its boot loader on C:,
and at boot time you are given a menu to choose which OS to boot.
Done this way, the Win2000 install is a fresh install. You then have
to install any aps you want to use under Win2000. But there's a neat
trick you can use here. You can install each ap into the *C:* drive
(c:\program files). It will install right over the copy installed for
Win98, and the ap will work fine under both OS's.
I did it this way because I thought I'd be going back and forth
between the two OS's. But it turns out I almost never boot Win98 any
more.
P.S. Dual CPUs work GREAT.
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