Dual Boot XP
Checklist Summary To configure a computer containing Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP, review the following guidelines:
1. As explained above, using NTFS as the only file system on a computer containing both Windows XP and Windows NT is not recommended.
2.Make sure that Windows NT 4.0 has been updated with the latest released Service Pack available for download before installing Windows XP.
3.Install each operating system on a separate drive or disk partition.
4.When you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), by default, the installation is placed on a partition on which no other operating system is located. You can specify a different partition during Setup.
5.Don’t install Windows XP on a compressed drive unless the drive was compressed with the NTFS file system compression feature.
6.On any partition where you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), you will need to re-install any programs, such as word processing or email software, after Setup is complete.
7.Install the programs used by each operating system on the partition with that system. If you want your programs to run with multiple operating systems, you need to install separate copies of the programs in each of the operating system partitions.
8.If the computer is on a Windows NT Server or Windows 2000 Server domain, each installation of Windows XP on that computer must have a different computer name.