Well why don't you just run them as dual boot. Im sure you can't possibly
use up that much storage space that you would need a 100GB plus another
empty 40 GB. Plus that way when XP gives you massive problems you can always
go back to win2k. Well there's lots of ways you can do it, but dual boot may
give you less grief.

Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A. Wosnick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:32 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Have I outsmarted myself????


> Not that it would be so hard to do.....outsmart myself, that is :)
>
> Here's the situation:
>
> I am currently running Win2k and my system has a 40G HD divided into
several
> logical partitions C, D, E, F, G, and H. I have just purchased both a new
> 100G HD as well as WinXP. For the moment, I have installed the new HD as a
> slave drive so that I can still boot my system and use it as always with
all
> the programs etc on the 40G drive while I tinker with the new drive in the
> background.
>
> Therefore, I want to partition the new drive into at least a few
partitions
> (e.g. now I assume they will be logical drives I, J, K etc) and do a clean
> install of WinXP onto the first of these new partitions (drive I in this
> example), and eventually re-install my programs etc on the new drive. All
of
> that is straightforward, I think. Problem is, and you can probably see
where
> I am going, once WinXP is fully operational on Disk 2, and all my programs
> etc are running tip-top under it, I want to change the system over so that
I
> boot to WinXp (Drive 2) and not Win2k (Drive 1). I assumed I would just
> reverse the drives so that the 100Gigger now becomes the master instead of
> the slave.
>
> But then how will this boot up? Disk 2, Drive I will now become Disk 1,
> Drive??? Won't all my drive references be wrong? How will the system ever
> boot or find anything? If I make the new drive the master drive now, how
> will I boot up the system under Win2k, since all those drive references
will
> now be wrong.
>
> Furthermore, if I just prepare and partition Disk 2 now as a series of
> logical partitions, how will it ever be bootable without a reformat to add
> system files at that time? If I make it bootable now, how do I have 2
> bootable disks, and how does my system know what to use? Does it just look
> for the first bootable partition or is there something else I have to do
in
> the preparation of Disk 2?
>
> In short, how can I install the new drive and a new OS but still use my
> current drive/settings/programs for now, and then change the whole damn
> thing over in one fell swoop. Or can I?
>
> Help please before I really butcher things up :)
>
> Michael
>
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