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Old 28th Nov 02, 05:06 AM
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If you install ME on C drive and XP on D or whatever, besides C, then everything will be fine, you can install XP as many times as you want and will not kill ME....

If you deside to reinstqall ME, you need to back up the files on C that XP puts there or you will have to do a repair on XP to be able to boot again..

the files are (ntldr,boot.ini,ntdetect.com,pagefile.sys,and IO.sys)...

Just copy to a floopy, reinstall ME and recopy to C:....

This works MUCH better than putting ME on D, and XP on C, for me anyway..

I suppose you could copy the ME files off of C, before you reinstall XP, but for me I never use ME much and I reinstall XP ALOT...

the easy way is before you reinstall anything from C drive, COPY all the boot files to a floopy first......

Makes it easy..

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