Hi folks

I wonder If anyone can help me - at the moment I am trying to run windows 2000 Professional in a dual boot setup with my old NT4 workstation partition (Why ?!? I hear you shout - well I would like to keep nt4 as it is what I am using at university at the moment - has all their software on it, and I want to use 2K as a clean "work" OS for my final year project). I currently have NT4 Sp6a on my C: partition, D: is a Data partition, e: is my zip drive and the 2K Partition is F:

My problem is this :

Windows 2000 (SP2) runs fine (nice and quick too !) However If I select windows NT 4.0 from the boot menu, I can get past the login screen, but from then on performance is excruciatingly Slooooow ! - After a while my desktop appears (and everything is as it should be) but the applications in the system tray do not finish loading - the hourglass appears and nothing much happens after that - I left it an hour and then gave up !

I know microsoft frown upon the idea of having the 2 os's running in tandem on NTFS partitions although as far as I am aware it IS possible (correct me if I am wrong here please) From what I read Microsoft built NTFS 5 support into nt4sp 4, so what is causing the problem ? Is it something to do with the way I have set the 2k partition up ?


Andrew

Well I am no expert on this specific topic, but to me it sounds like you may have potential problems with OS clashes. If you're running both NT4 and 2k on the same partition, some shared files may be optimized for one OS but not the other. Windows 2000 was built on windows NT and therefore shares some structural and file name similarities. However, siince windows 2000 is a newer OS it may have replaced some files wich maybe win2k optimized, but which NT4 struggles to handle!
I REPEAT: I AM NO EXPERT ON THIS SUBJECT, but I do know one thing, it would be a better idea if you allocate each OS its own partition. I don't know whether or not that's practical or even feasible in your case since you've already installed both OSs on one partition. In the future though, if you wish to dual boot ANY OSs, you really should set up seperate partitions for them to work in. That way you can prevent clashes and improve performance, and also organize them better!

good luck. I hope this helps!

Oops, I'm sorry, I just read your post again. You have them on 2 different partitions already. I'm terribly sorry dude. I thought you had them on one!
All I can say is make sure each partitions has tonnes of space. Other than that all I can do is shrug! Sorry again dude, MY BAD!
:-(