dual booting, the process

[sup3rcarrx7]

how do you create a dual booting computer? Also if i want to remove one of them later, how do i do it? Thanks.

[Steve R Jones]

The short answer about creating: Install the older OS first on it's own partition, then install the newer one.

How to Multiple Boot Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, and MS-DOS

[Bill in SD, CA]

The boot.ini file contains the commands allowing for the OS boot option. It's far easier to delete the 2nd OS than the first.

IMO

Bill

[sup3rcarrx7]

thanks!

[Xeroid]

If you want to fit Linux in the mix, do it after Steve's list. It will install a bootloader (lilo or grub) and give you the option of booting to Linux or Windows. If you choose Windows, the Linux bootloader hands off to the NT loader which gives you a choice of Windows flavors you have installed.

[jmichna]

Originally posted by Steve R Jones
The short answer about creating: Install the older OS first on it's own partition, then install the newer one.

How to Multiple Boot Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, and MS-DOS

Just to add to the resources, here's another good dual boot reference:
http://www.techspot.com/articles/dualboot/

[sup3rcarrx7]

Thanks alot guys! You guys are the best!

[qball]

[2 cents]
maximum pc, the magazine, once had a 37 OS PC as rig of month, it used a boot loader program, that I cannot recall right now....

just, if, you ever want to trip/quad/more boot.
[/2 cents]