There's a way to order up a scan disk at boot, but I know not how... So you got a new hard drive. Was the ME install a clean install? Or did you transfer old files afterwards? Sounds like something went down the wrong way. Hate to spend more good money chasing after bad buying an XP upgrade, but also would be curious; a challenge! I'd keep trying to get your new ME running normal (able to do scan disk) before I'd spend more on an XP upgrade. Could be your problems are elsewhere.

G'day Wawadave,

I found the solution to my ME trouble ... too uch RAM at installation time.
All working fine now.

During this long tiring drama I had decide to give XP a try.
Can you advise on dual booting ?
Exactly how do i go about it ?

hello
you will need two partitions or two hard drives to duel boot on.

i have m.e on c: xp on d:


if you had no data to lose you could use fdisk to create a new partition but it deletes all data. so you will have to then reinstall m.e. the partition xp goes on does not have to be an active partition. and extended logical partition will work fine.
xp i,m useing is on a logical partition. non active.

m.e can only go on c: must be installed first!!!! or xp,s boot manager will not see it.

if you use partition magic you can create a partition on the drive with out loseing data.
but back up all your data before doing any of these as they can go wrong. nevr had it happen my self but a few posters have.
now if you had a seconed hard drive you you could install it as slave in a desktop and put xp on there.
w2k or xp don,t matter what drive you put them on.
you can install xp on fat rather than ntfs you can see it from m.e or dos that way i had one install like that.
but ntfs suposed to have security feature fat don,t.
short of win98-m.e not seeing it i cannot remember the big deal. might be ms F.U.D but google on it and decide for your self.

curantly useing ntfs.

so depending on room and needs you will need to decide how big of partitions to make.

my m.e is on 5.5gigs xp on 18.9 but i don,t use m.e for much any more than a place holder for my xphome upgrade cd to see if i need to reinstall.

if useing an upgrade xp cd you will ether need a win95-98-m.e-w2k cd to put in drive during install of xp. or in my case computer had recovery cd,s so needed an install of any of those to work.

but if you get a full install cd than skip the needing other cd,s to install.