Dual Booting with XP and 98 0r 2000

[HammerHead]

I just bought a new notebook computer with Windows XP pre loaded on it! The salesman told me that I don't get a XP disk or even a rescue disk, it will not be included!

I want to have a Dual Boot System but from what I have read in order to do this I will have to install Operating systems in order of age! So this means Windows 98 to be installed before XP right? Well since I don't have windows XP on disk I cannot reinstall it after windows 98!

Is there a way to install Windows 98 or 2000 after XP has already been installed?


Thanks

[Omletteboy]

I've installed win2k server after intalling xp. However I did it on different partitions. But I believe you can still dual boot by booting off win2k cd and installing it in another directory instead of winnt.

[HammerHead]

Thanks for the info!

Could I find a step by step somewhere?

[HammerHead]

Windows XP was installed using the FAT 32 format! Now if I install Windows 2000 pro also using FAT 32 from a boot from the CD will it still have booting problems! When I installed 2000 using FTNS format 2000 would boot fine but XP would not boot?

Help Please!!!

Any Thoughts????

[morriswindgate]

Ok, let me get this straight, you buy a new computer from a store, They tell you that you don't get the OS Disk (which you paid for) or a rescue disk with the software on it (which you also paid for)
I would take the thing back and tell them give me my money or the disks. I do not care if XP is supposed to be the greatest thing ever you will at sometime need the disk.
Are you sure that someone at the store is going to use the disk for their own use. Go back and talk to the manager.

[Briab Guy]

excellent advice morris, someting is a miss here....
i dont kno if i red your post correctly, but you cant, to my knowledge, run NTFS with a FAT file sys.
You can get paration magic to boot woth multi OS'S.

[Tuf]

That is simply amazing that someone would sell a laptop without a disk. I would return the computer or get the software that you will definitely need.

[Statica]

Hmm, lots smelling fishy here .. are you sure the salesman/or store is not the same kind who will fix u up with a Molex watch or a new DVD player at 5% of the market cost

[vernonm_2000]

My friend had this happen to him and it turned out the guy had taken the OS disk for his own use

[bailey]

my new notebook came with xp preinstalled, and several cd's that thee of them is a gost type back uprecovery set for the hard drive,the xpcd code is a label on the bottom of the case of the notebook, so it may be the corporate version that does not need activate when reinstalled.
denifatly a recovery set.
but there is no xp cd by its'self.

[glc]

It's legit, unfortunately. Your XP "disk" is in a hidden recovery partition on the hard drive. M$ is pushing OEM's real hard to do it this way to attempt to reduce piracy. Our builder has been browbeaten by M$ to no longer give us a full OEM copy of Windows with the systems we order any more - all we get now are recovery CD's - which reformat the drive and cannot be used to boot with to do a simple Win2K or XP repair. At least "no OS" is an option, but then it costs us a lot more than the difference to buy OEM copies of Windows to install, and it wastes a lot of our time compared to a nice preload with all drivers installed.