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> Edit the game's PIF for XMS or EMS allocations.  Details are available in
> Help and Support by doing a Search for "PIF" without the quotes.

> > More way OT stuff from me, but I would rather ask it here than ask a
> > bunch of total strangers.  I found a guy locally who will give me a good
> > price on XP Pro as long as I buy it with some other component, and I am
> > in need of a new hard drive anyway.  So I am going to get a new hard
> > drive and put XP Pro on it.  Now I am thinking that if I am going to do
> > that anyway I may as well go dual boot so that all my old stuff will
> > work and I will have access to it while I am figuring out how to make
> > things work in XP.  So I will leave the old drive in and leave it
> > intact, no changes.  How do I get this to work?  If I make the new drive
> > the primary drive will I get the option to install it as a dual boot or
> > will it be oblivious to the fact that I have another drive on my system?
> > Does the old drive's boot sector have to be modified in some way?
> > Anything else I need to know?  TIA.

> > More way OT stuff from me, but I would rather ask it here than ask a
> > bunch of total strangers.  I found a guy locally who will give me a good
> > price on XP Pro as long as I buy it with some other component, and I am
> > in need of a new hard drive anyway.  So I am going to get a new hard
> > drive and put XP Pro on it.  Now I am thinking that if I am going to do
> > that anyway I may as well go dual boot so that all my old stuff will
> > work and I will have access to it while I am figuring out how to make
> > things work in XP.  So I will leave the old drive in and leave it
> > intact, no changes.  How do I get this to work?  If I make the new drive
> > the primary drive will I get the option to install it as a dual boot or
> > will it be oblivious to the fact that I have another drive on my system?
> > Does the old drive's boot sector have to be modified in some way?
> > Anything else I need to know?  TIA.

> If you're getting a good deal on WinXP with a new HD, it's most likely
> because he's allowed to sell you an OEM copy of WinXP when you buy
> certain hardware, it's the same CD but don't expect to get a big manual
> or anything, it will most likely be just a CD, a leaflet and the serial
> no, but hey, that's all you need anyways :-)

> As for the tech bit, no, I don't think there's an easy way to set up a
> dual boot with your new drive as the primary drive, if you keep the old
> HD as the primary drive, there's nothing that keeps you from installing
> WinXP to the new drive and booting to XP from that drive, the WinXP
> installer will write to the boot record of the old drive and you will
> get a menu with the choice to boot to "previous OS" or "Windows XP" when
> starting your PC

> In fact, WinXP doesn't like to share the HD, or partition actually, with
> another OS, it can sit happily on a different partition of the same
> physical drive, but if you install XP on the same partition as your
> previous OS, it will most likely destroy that Windows installation, I've
> read some place why this happens but I've since forgotten it, been there
> and done that, so installing them to different HD's is actually the
> recommended method

> So just let your old drive be your primary drive and install XP on the
> new drive when it asks where to install, if you use FAT32 your old
> Windows will be able to see the new drive as well, unless you're using
> Win2k of course as this also supports NTFS

> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy

> http://www.theuspits.com

> "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
> --Groucho Marx--

> > I believe that can be fixed with an "fdisk /mbr" from a floppy
drive.  I
> > had a similar problem with a dual boot Windows/Linux system and I
think
> > that is how I fixed it.

> > > This is the best method probably.  It doesn't allow you to remove
the
> > old
> > > drive later though if you decide that you are satisfied enough to
only
> > have
> > > 1 OS.  I try not to do this, because your old hard drive is just
that,
> > old.
> > > It will fail before the new one hopefully, and you are left with
an OS
> > that
> > > you can not boot.  You could create a new partition at the
beginning
> > of the
> > > new drive, and copy the partition of the old drive over to it,
then
> > install
> > > XP in the second one I suppose.  That way you can resize the
partition
> > later
> > > if you remove the original OS and still have the boot info on the
new
> > drive.

> Does FAST come with the full version?  That sounds like a feature of the
> Upgrade version.

> Okay thanks.  Next question - at this point, based on all the feedback
> here and the fact that my son has had XP Pro for several months and had
> zero problems with it, I think I am going to skip the dual boot thing,
> but keep the old drive as secondary so that I can pick the data off of
> it as I see fit.  Now in that scenario can I still use FAST to pick up
> all the settings and the OE store from the old drive?

> > Larry

> I have WIN98SE and am considering upgrading to XP. I'm pretty vanilla user
> (checkbook program, MS Office, etc.) with th exception of my devotion to
> *** sims. I have a Logitech MOMO and Act Labs High Performance
pedals.

> For me, are there any downsides to upgrading?