From: "Gary Britt" 

I already have those adapters and a USB external drive case as well.  I
have been considering something similar to what you've suggested as part of
my plans on making this happen.

I run a dual boot win2k/win98 setup now on a couple of machines.  I don't
have any problems.  I keep everything FAT32 and sometimes boot win98 to do
certain drive/partition copy/mirror operations and other similar things.

Thanks,

Gary

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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> How about buying another 80G drive and two laptop-desktop ATA adapters,
and
> copying the XP partition to its new shrunken home.  Then create, format
and
> fill your other partitions, perhaps using a third-party boot manager, back
in
> the laptop.  Then pray, anyway.
>
> -he who hates to live dangerously, and who's never met a multiboot setup
he
> didn't hate.
>

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