On 10/29/2014 01:35 AM, Sasquatch Jones wrote:




If the machine has one hard drive and it's all one partition you will
need to get 3rd party software to repartition your drive.

You will need to shrink the Win2000 partition first.


http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...rtition-Wizard


Once you do that there will be "free space" on the drive.


Now all you have to do is boot with your XP cd and be sure to take the
option to use the free space for your installation.


BTW, unless your machine has at least a 1ghz cpu and 512 megs of RAM
don't even bother to try XP

Thanks, I have plenty of GB and CPU speed. After I install XP like this, and then turn the computer and reboot, will it come up to a menu where I can choose 2000 or XP? Will probably re-installed 98 also because I have a version of Autocad that runs on 98 but not on 2000 and later.





When you install XP on the 2nd partition it will automatically be set up
for dual boot, so you won't have to worry about that.


However, with Windows you generally need to start with the oldest
operating first and it will be rather tricky to add Win98 later, you
will need still one more empty partition and a 3rd party boot manager or
else be prepared to repair your boot sector

If . as suggested, the compatibility setting do not work, then I'd
install Win98 in a Virtual Machine


http://www.howtogeek.com/79840/add-a...-to-xp-part-1/