From: "Gary Britt" 

Just have recovery CD and not a real windows OS CD, with regard to XP anyway.

Thanks,

Gary

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:437c0890$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> If you have "real" installation medias (i.e. not recovery
cd's but normal
> windows installation cd's) for all the systems, and the laptop hasn't been
> used much yet (so you won't mind re-installing xp), you could install all
> the windows versions on it starting from the oldest one (w98),
partitioning
> the hd first of course. Then you'll get that windows startup menu when you
> start the computer, where you get to choose which os you want to startup,
> without installing any additional boot managers. I worked like that on
some
> test systems once, before we got vmware (multiboot tends to be a little
bit
> fragile when testing all sorts of unfinished software).
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:437b8b0f{at}w3.nls.net...
> >I just bought a new laptop.  It came with 80 gig hard drive and XP Home
> > pre-loaded.  I want to shrink the XP partition down to 20 gigs, and then
> > create 3 new partitions that will all be Fat32 partitions.  One will
boot
> > Win98 and one will boot Win2K.
> >
> > I have Partition Magic 7, which is the version just before XP.  Can I
use
> > Partition Magic 7 to handle setting up the partitions I need?  I've
> > partitioned plenty of drives not involving XP.  Never any with XP.  I
want
> > the XP partition to remain bootable.  I assume the XP partition is NTFS.
> > Any problems if I convert it to FAT32 (other than losing all that
> > wonderful
> > security crap I don't want that comes with NTFS)??
> >
> > Suggestions, problems, gotchas???  Does the version of PQ Boot that came
> > with Partition Magic 7 work to boot XP partitions?  Does XP have its own
> > boot manager?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
>
>

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