Hi all,

I'm new to the list as I've just purchased a new Toshiba m205-s810, so thanks in advance for the help.

I need to dual boot Windows Me and XP Tablet edition.

I've heard partitioning is a bad idea, so I purchased a 5 GB PCMCIA Hard Drive to put Me on and would like to boot from an sd card.

If anyone could walk me through the correct sequence of loading Me and then setting up my boot disk it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
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David

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:15:01 -0700, mtndoc
<mtndoc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to the list as I've just purchased a new Toshiba m205-s810, so thanks in advance for the help.
>
>I need to dual boot Windows Me and XP Tablet edition.
>
>I've heard partitioning is a bad idea, so I purchased a 5 GB PCMCIA Hard Drive to put Me on and would like to boot from an sd card.
>
>If anyone could walk me through the correct sequence of loading Me and then setting up my boot disk it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks again,

Wonder why you've heard that partitioning is a bad idea - never had
any problems doing it. Course, there's *always* a danger of something
not working, but there's danger even doing windows updates or driver
updates.

Doing ME *after* XP is installed doesn't work easily without third
party tools, since ME will overwrite the boot sector and isn't
intelligent enough to compensate for an existing operating system. If
you had ME first, and then installed NT, 2000, or an XP based product,
the true 32 bit OS would have set up a boot choice for you.

There are ways to simply install ME (don't use the default "windows"
directory because that would overwrite XP files) and then correct it,
but you'll be doing many things manually. At this point it's
worthwhile to do one of two things. Either install a third party
partition program that allows multiple operating systems and does all
the "hard work", or an even easier choice would be to get hold of
Microsoft Virtual PC - that way you could run Millennium *inside* of
XP without any dual boot issues. You'd simply use virtual PC to
create a pretend PC that would be more or less fully functional,
without having to deal with partitions, boot manager programs, etc...

it runs great on XP (which is what the tablet is based on) and I've
used it on both my Toshiba 3500 as well as my Toshiba M200.

Worth looking into. You can get info at www.microsoft.com/virtualpc

John