Can you run Windows Server 2003 with xp home

4 Apr 2005 10:11 AM

Bigfred

Hi,

Does anyone know if you can run WS 2003 along with xp home.

I am a student and would like to run WS2003 on my home desktop ,
i have one hardisk running xp home at the moment.

I have heard conflicting reports about whether this is possible.
Can someone explain the process if one exists , tks.

4 Apr 2005 10:49 AM

ohaya

Bigfred wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if you can run WS 2003 along with xp home.
>
> I am a student and would like to run WS2003 on my home desktop ,
> i have one hardisk running xp home at the moment.
>
> I have heard conflicting reports about whether this is possible.
> Can someone explain the process if one exists , tks.

Hi,

You have a couple different choices to do this, depending on whether you
want to have BOTH Win2K3 and XP running simultaneously on the same
machine or whether you want to just have them on the same machine but
won't run them simultaneously.

For the non-simultaneous use, you can "multi-boot". I'm doing this now
on my test machine. I use a program called BootItNG
(http://www.terabyteunlimited.com) to partition my hard drive and to act
as boot manager.

For simultaneous use, you could try something like Microsoft's Virtual
PC or Virtual Server or VMWare. I've used Virtual PC, but not with
Win2K3 or XP yet.

Jim

4 Apr 2005 1:53 PM

Bigfred

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"ohaya" wrote:

>
>
> Bigfred wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know if you can run WS 2003 along with xp home.
> >
> > I am a student and would like to run WS2003 on my home desktop ,
> > i have one hardisk running xp home at the moment.
> >
> > I have heard conflicting reports about whether this is possible.
> > Can someone explain the process if one exists , tks.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> You have a couple different choices to do this, depending on whether you
> want to have BOTH Win2K3 and XP running simultaneously on the same
> machine or whether you want to just have them on the same machine but
> won't run them simultaneously.
>
> For the non-simultaneous use, you can "multi-boot". I'm doing this now
> on my test machine. I use a program called BootItNG
> (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com) to partition my hard drive and to act
> as boot manager.
>
> For simultaneous use, you could try something like Microsoft's Virtual
> PC or Virtual Server or VMWare. I've used Virtual PC, but not with
> Win2K3 or XP yet.
>
> Jim

Tks Jim,

I would intend to use the non-simultaneous option as i would only intend to
us WS2003 as an aid to college work and probaly remove at semester end.

What worried me was that i understand that WS2003 will install its boot
files to the c: drive no matter , and i really did not know how to get round
that , did you install
bootit NG first , and then WS2003 , what would be the process steps ?

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6 Apr 2005 2:01 AM

ohaya

> Tks Jim,
>
> I would intend to use the non-simultaneous option as i would only intend to
> us WS2003 as an aid to college work and probaly remove at semester end.
>
> What worried me was that i understand that WS2003 will install its boot
> files to the c: drive no matter , and i really did not know how to get round
> that , did you install
> bootit NG first , and then WS2003 , what would be the process steps ?

Hi,

This is not a technical explanation, but when you install BootitNG, it
kind of has the ability to mask partitions so that it can make Windows
think that (for example) the 3rd physical partition on the drive is the
C: partition, etc.

The installation procedure goes something like (not exactly. Sorry,
it's been awhile):

- Install BootitNG
- Setup or re-adjust your partitions, including possibly a new partition
for (in your case) Win2K3
- Setup a "boot item" in BootitNG that includes your new (uninstalled)
Win2K3 partition as the 1st partition and with "use next BIOS device"
(or something like that)

The "use next BIOS device" will tell BootitNG to boot from the CDROM so
you can do the Win2K3 installation (onto the new Win2K3 partition).

You can setup multiple boot items, one for each OS and each set of
partitions (up to 4 max, including the OS partition) to use with that
OS.

There's lots of information on Terabyte's website, and they have their
own news server where their tech support responds if you have more
questions about it.

Jim