Microsoft article: How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP

Yes, but you will have to have two partitions (or hard drives) so that you can install XP separately from your other system (which can be DOS/Windows 3.1, Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000). Windows XP will automatically set up a boot menu so you can choose which OS you want when the machine starts up or reboots. The boot menu is configurable by hand-editing the hidden file boot.ini, which you will find in the root of the C: drive.

The new smooth blue or green wrapping on the Start menu, Task Bar, and on all of the windows are part of the new visual design for Windows XP. This feature can be turned off to speed up your computer, however this will revert all windows and menus back to the gray rectangular design of Windows 98 or 2000. If the My Computer icon is on your desktop, right-click on it. Otherwise, go to the Start menu and right-click on My Computer. Select Adjust for best performance. Click Apply.

Microsoft produced a program for Windows Vista called the "Windows Photo Gallery", but not for Windows XP. If you are seeing this message on your Windows XP computer, it is an unrelated program of the same name and was probably put there by your computer's manufacturer. Contact your computer's manufacturer for more information.

You cannot create a boot disk with Windows 2000 or NT, but you can use a boot disk created by Windows 95 or 98 to recognize your NWDVDPR. Note: If your file system is NTFS, you will not be able to read data on your hard drive when using the boot disk.

Before booting this floppy, take some time to explore its contents, as the disk has a filesystem on it that can be mounted and perused. To do this, insert a COPY of the Essential Utilities Floppy 1 (from now on, "the boot floppy") into the drive with a write-protect tab. Now, Because boot floppies vary from release to release, it would be most helpful to simply get a listing of the contents of your particular boot floppy.

Use the command map, to exchange BIOS drives virtually, like this: grub> root (hd1,0) grub> chainloader +1 grub> map (hd0) (hd1) grub> map (hd1) (hd0) I have a separate boot partition on GNU/Linux (or another UNIX-like system), and GRUB seems not to handle this situation correctly. Because GRUB is a boot loader and it normally runs under no operating system, it doesn't know where a partition is mounted under your operating systems.

NCDC we have installed the Atlas successfully onto a Windows 2000 pc. (We haven't tried it in Windows ME or Windows XP.) Here's how we made it work in Windows 2000: Please note that neither NCDC nor ESRI supports ArcExplorer in Windows 2000, or Windows ME, or Windows XP. Please read the Atlas' Minimum Requirements page. Download Sun's jre 1.3.1 for Microsoft Windows from the sun website. We got it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-windows.

You can configure your computer to start Windows 2000, Windows NT, and either Windows 95 or Windows 98. However, you cannot configure a computer to multiple boot Windows 95 and Windows 98. Both Windows 95 and Windows 98 use the same boot file. Therefore, multiple booting Windows 95 and Windows 98 at the same time is not supported. Your installations are less prone to problems if you install Windows 95 or Windows 98 before you install Windows NT and Windows 2000.

Microsoft is aiming to combine the features of Windows Me for the consumer, and reliability of Windows 2000 for businesses and power users into one new operating system. This operating system in its' different flavors will have new features for gaming, multimedia applications, audio, etc. in addition to features for networking, development, etc. for businesses and power users.

Windows XP comes in Professional and Home versions. Servers will also come out, but they are still in beta testing.

Windows XP Home is $99 for an upgrade copy and $199 for the full version. Windows XP Pro is $199 for the upgrade version and $299 for a full copy.

No. The 32-bit version will see only the Protective MBR. The EE partition will not be mounted or otherwise exposed to application software.

Windows XP x64 edition can use GPT disks for data only. Only Windows for Itanium-based systems can boot from GPT partitions.

No, please click here for instructions on creating Windows XP boot diskettes or here for instructions on creating Windows 2000 boot diskettes. Just having possession of software does not give the right to use it. The right to use a product is granted through a license. Microsoft grants licenses through the Campus Agreement.

Features such as System Restore, Image acquisition and more. Most of the new multimedia features in Windows Me will be carried over to Windows XP.

Most programs that work on Windows 95/98/Me and NT will work on versions of Windows XP. As with Windows 2000, several compatibility updates are sure to made after the product is released. There will be problems running older DOS programs (if they will run at all).