Dual Booting Windows 2000

User Tip #3: Dual Booting Windows 2000

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Multi-Booting Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, and MS-DOS

Dual-Booting Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 on NTFS Partitions

Preparing For Dual Boot with Windows 2000 Professional

From Windows 2000, you can select which OS will be default by edititing the boot.ini (as in NT4) or by right clicking and selecting
My Computer
Properties
Advanced
Startup and Recovery
Set Default operating System
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There are commercial multiboot products. Consider Terabyte's BootIt™:

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support for large hard drives and partitions.
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non-destructive resizing for NTFS.
creation and deletion or partitions/volumes.
FAT/FAT32 formatting
copying and moving of partitions/volumes.
Imaging (including directly to CD)
booting any partition on any hard drive
booting from the CD ROM drive
booting multiple operating systems from a single partition
user id and password protection
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explicit advice on how to get various combinations of systems to coexist

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