Hi all-

I'm getting tired of all the blue screens that my old HP gives me- it's running WinME and was new just before XP came out.
I recently upgraded my storage drive from a flakey 80GB to a new 300GB. Unfortunately, WinME can only see 137GB of the new drive.
I was thinking that now is the time to leave ME behind and go through the effort of setting up a new OS.
My original plan was to load Win2k onto the new drive as master and rebuild my current status on top of that with my old 40GB master now as slave (or set aside for reference).

I thought maybe it would be fun to set up the system as dual boot with Ubuntu. That way I could have fun and play and learn in two worlds.

Reason for Win2k over XP is that I have a copy of 2k and I'm cheap.
Would I be correct in assuming the 300GB drive would be partitioned for the two OSes?
What are the options for bootloaders?
Will I be able to access files from one OS's partition with the other?

Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated!