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
