running home and pro

[ricky kline]

I have a pentium 3 869mhz i have a 40 gig and a 80gig hard drive I am about to get a 200 gig but... I want to run win 98 xp home and xp pro all on the 200 gig. the 80gig is installed and formatted but blank. the 40gig is the c: it has xp pro installed but the thing is i dont have the xp pro cd i do have the xp home and the 98 cds. how would i run all three and how could i get the xp pro to the 200 gig. all suggestions would be nice.

ps i want all three because there are games i cant play on xp that i can on 98 soo..

[scottjriel]

two things. there is a way to run xp pro in compatability mode to run programs in lets say 16 bit mode.
If you want to continue with the 200gb partition the hard drive three ways. whatever size you think you need make sure you do a primary partition for the boot partitions. there is also two ways to install the OS's . you can install XP lets say then install me using a boot ini. boot ini makes you get a screeen while booting that forwards the boot process as to where to find which operating system to boot to. Other option is have your install not use a boot ini and make the OS's boot using active partition. In xp right click my computer and then click dick management then set a partition active then install the next OS. if you do it this way you can take off your main operating or the first one you installed and it will now affect the others. Using the common dual or tri boot way will erase the boot ini if you clear the first OS. I suggest doing some research about this before hand before taking my advice.