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Well here I am with my shiny new OS and the inevitable growing pains.

I have Win ME installed on my 'puter right now. Actually, I have two separate Win ME installations. One is a general purpose install and the other a highly tweaked recording installation. Both OS's are installed on separate partitions and controlled by BootMagic (so I can select which version I want at bootup).

I thought I could simply create another partition and load Win XP there and then use Bootmagic to select from one of the three OS's but Win XP doesn't seem to like that too well. Turned into a mess really quick.

Any suggestions?

I may just dump the general purpose OS and replace that with XP and then keep the other ME install for my tripleDAT needs. Waddayathink?

tanks man

I'd axe ME and put one installation of XP on there. Create two profiles, one audio, the other whatever, and enable/disable services & hardware as needed for each profile. XP will let you select the proper HW profile at bootup. Runs very well here.

I need ME in order to run tripleDAT.

Unless I am mistaken, 3DAT will not run under XP.

If you have both ME & XP on your harddrive currently you can edit boot.ini to allow selection of the OS during boot...

Looks like you are correct. Maybe make XP the first or primary OS, then do another partition with ME. Partition Magic might help...?

Ahhhh - bliss

I got it figured out guys - thanks. The problem was that I didn't set the new OS partition to "active" before installing XP. It seemed to me, when I rebooted the PC with XP in the drive, it would install in the correct partition but not before it found an active OS already installed. That seemed to confuse it (and Bootmagic).

Anyway, it was a simple matter to make the new partition active and then install XP (the other OS partitions were now hidden).

Working like a charm now. Three OS partitions all selectable via BootMagic at startup. I'll keep my ME installations around until I've mastered XP. If CW ever updates tripleDAT so it's XP compatible, I can dump the entire ME partitions.

Anyway, fun fun fun. I can't say enough good stuff about PartitionMagic. One of the most useful utilities I've ever owned.