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installing w2k after xp

Started by Gswiss , Jul 29 2007 01:36 PM

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Gswiss

Posted 29 July 2007 - 01:36 PM

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On a laptop, I have a faulty dvd burner which does not recognize bootable cd's or dvd's although it can read them once xp is launched.

With xp already installed, I would like to install a dual boot environment with w2k-sp4. Whenever I click on setup on the w2k cd, I get a rebuttal from Microsoft stating that the OS I want to install is older the installed one.

I copied the cd contents to hard disk and tried from there. Same message.

Is there a parameter I can work on which would suppress this lock Microsoft has put in so that I could run the setup from i386 from hard disk?