Dual install - will this work?

[Jeffrey Briner]

I am presently running an expired evaluation copy of 2000
Professional. As such, my computer keeps rebooting every
hour. I have XP on order, and I'm looking forward to
installing it and using it. I have two hard drives, with
my C drive being the master with the operating system. I
cannot install XP over the existing operating system.

What I am asking is, could I install XP onto my D drive,
and designate it as the boot drive, bypassing the old 2000
Professional operating system? That way all of the
programs and data on C drive would remain intact and I
could just forget about 2000 Professional.

Any comments... Is this a workable solution, or do I have
to destroy (reformat)the C drive to install XP?

[Sharon F]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:00:40 -0700, "Jeffrey Briner"
> wrote:

>I am presently running an expired evaluation copy of 2000
>Professional. As such, my computer keeps rebooting every
>hour. I have XP on order, and I'm looking forward to
>installing it and using it. I have two hard drives, with
>my C drive being the master with the operating system. I
>cannot install XP over the existing operating system.
>
>What I am asking is, could I install XP onto my D drive,
>and designate it as the boot drive, bypassing the old 2000
>Professional operating system? That way all of the
>programs and data on C drive would remain intact and I
>could just forget about 2000 Professional.
>
>Any comments... Is this a workable solution, or do I have
>to destroy (reformat)the C drive to install XP?

Well, it's workable but

1) any programs on C: that you want to use with XP, will have to be
installed again (do this while logged on to XP).

2) Don't reformat C: It contains the boot files for the XP installation
on D:

Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]