The 10 month old Biostar motherboard on my PC caught fire and died. Now I am in the market for a new PC, but I want to transfer the XP and Win2k from the burnt PC to the new Dell PC so that I can triple boot between XP/Win2K & Vista.
I know that this question has been discussed and beaten to death in this forum many times before, but searching the old topics did not give me a satisfactory solution.
I heard that it is very hard to install an older OS when Vista is already installed. Would it help if I formatted the hard drive on the new Dell PC, effectively wiping out vista and then installing Win2K, & XP first, and then installing vista from the Dell Vista OS reinstall DVD (I suppose they provide one with the new PC)?
Also, I have a brand new WD 320 GB SATA hard drive in my burnt out PC with Win2K already Installed. Can I add this to the extra drive bay and use the BIOS to switch between the 2 Hard Drives (one to boot Win2K/XP) and the other to boot Vista? The older BIOSes did not allow selecting the HD that I wanted to use as a boot drive, but I don't know if the newer BIOSes do....
Need advice on dual booting Win2k & XP on a new Dell PC with Vista already installed
This is how I do it.. I don't like making partitions on a HDD so I put another HDD in and just hit a key to jump around to which I want to boot to. Most have that ability like hitting a key to get into Bios like the Dells have F2/Bios and F12 Boot menu.neo960 wrote: Can I add this to the extra drive bay and use the BIOS to switch between the 2 Hard Drives (one to boot Win2K/XP) and the other to boot Vista? The older BIOSes did not allow selecting the HD that I wanted to use as a boot drive, but I don't know if the newer BIOSes do....
Sounds good.Sava700 wrote:This is how I do it.. I don't like making partitions on a HDD so I put another HDD in and just hit a key to jump around to which I want to boot to. Most have that ability like hitting a key to get into Bios like the Dells have F2/Bios and F12 Boot menu.
If I ever want to re-install win2K on the 2nd HD or Vista on the Dell supplied HD, should I remove the other HD before? Otherwise dual boot will be enabled in the boot.ini, right?
shouldn't much any difference.. you choose the drive you wish to install it on during the install and your booting from the disk for starters.neo960 wrote:Sounds good.
If I ever want to re-install win2K on the 2nd HD or Vista on the Dell supplied HD, should I remove the other HD before? Otherwise dual boot will be enabled in the boot.ini, right?
Finally I managed to install Win2k SP4 on the 2nd SATA drive, and I am able to switch between Vista and W2k from the BIOS boot menu.
But I have a problem now:
What I have:
SATA HD 0: Vista Home Premium 64-Bit (HD and system came from Dell)
SATA HD 1: Windows 2000 SP4 (HD and system are my additions to the dell system)
I had disconnected the Dell Vista HD when I installed Win2k on the other drive, so that the W2K installation process will not touch the Dell Hard Drive and the vista system during the install.
Once the installation completed, and W2k was good, I reconnected the Dell drive with the vista system, the Win2K system does not recognize that drive, and says that it is unformatted!
When I boot the other drive (via the boot drive selection option in the bios), Vista boots up and is able to see the Win2k drive!
Is there anything I can do to make win2k see the vista drive?
I haven't installed any drivers yet, except the sata driver.
Edit:
Found the reason. I added the KEY EnableBigLba to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters
and everything looks kosher now.
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1
But I have a problem now:
What I have:
SATA HD 0: Vista Home Premium 64-Bit (HD and system came from Dell)
SATA HD 1: Windows 2000 SP4 (HD and system are my additions to the dell system)
I had disconnected the Dell Vista HD when I installed Win2k on the other drive, so that the W2K installation process will not touch the Dell Hard Drive and the vista system during the install.
Once the installation completed, and W2k was good, I reconnected the Dell drive with the vista system, the Win2K system does not recognize that drive, and says that it is unformatted!
When I boot the other drive (via the boot drive selection option in the bios), Vista boots up and is able to see the Win2k drive!
Is there anything I can do to make win2k see the vista drive?
I haven't installed any drivers yet, except the sata driver.
Edit:
Found the reason. I added the KEY EnableBigLba to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters
and everything looks kosher now.
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1
Is there a single executable containing the complete package of all updates that need to be done to W2k after SP4 installation available for download? Also, is there a single executable file for IE6 SP1 that I can download so that I do not have to download this every time I reinstall W2K? I would like to have all the latest updates saved on a CD and installed from there.
Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 (KB891861)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b54730cf-8850-4531-b52b-bf28b324c662
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b54730cf-8850-4531-b52b-bf28b324c662
I don't know the same things you don't know. 