Dual operating systems

External Since: Aug 29, 2007 Posts: 1

Because of problems had to reload Win XP on laptop that came with Win2000.
When I selected NTFS, I now have both OS's available. Can I load
applications(Office XP for example) on W2000 & have them accessible from both
OS's or do I have to load a set of apps for each OS? I had been using WinXp
for 4 years but began experiencing system hangs upon cursor moves - so went
to current configuration.

External Since: Sep 21, 2004 Posts: 115

"twf" <twf.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:173EF643-87B4-4F84-A9C5-7E3529E87251@microsoft.com...

> Because of problems had to reload Win XP on laptop that came with Win2000.

You choose to. It's unlikely that you had to.

> When I selected NTFS, I now have both OS's available.

NTFS? It has nothing to do with NTFS. Was the result you wanted? If not, you
did the installation incorrectly.

> Can I load
> applications(Office XP for example) on W2000 & have them accessible from
> both
> OS's

No.

> or do I have to load a set of apps for each OS?

If that's what you want.

If you haven't loaded any apps yet, and you just want XP, you should redo
the installation correctly.
Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to
accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the
existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one).

You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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