Has Anyone ever gotten XPe to dual boot?

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Jason

If so, can you explain how?

I've been using diskpart to create three partitions, then use extend to make
them three different sizes, so I can tell which partition is which then
using
sdimgr.wsf test.sdi /writepart:c: /yes
sdimgr.wsf test.sdi /writepart:d: /yes
sdimgr.wsf test.sdi /writepart:e: /yes

and my boot.ini on each partition reads..
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft 8 gig" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft 15 gig" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft 29 gig" /fastdetect


MY problem is the when I select the third boot option from the menu, I
should be booting from the 29 gig partition, but if I look at the C drive
properties it reads 8 gig.
Same for the second selection of 15. The properties of the C should be 15
gig, but it reports back 8 gigs which is telling me (I assume) that
something is wrong with my dual boot.

Any ideas
 
sdimgr.wsf test.sdi /writepart:c: /yes
sdimgr.wsf test.sdi /writepart:d: /yes
sdimgr.wsf test.sdi /writepart:e: /yes

and my boot.ini on each partition reads..
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft 8 gig" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft 15 gig" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft 29 gig" /fastdetect


MY problem is the when I select the third boot option from the menu, I
should be booting from the 29 gig partition, but if I look at the C drive
properties it reads 8 gig.
Same for the second selection of 15. The properties of the C should be 15
gig, but it reports back 8 gigs which is telling me (I assume) that
something is wrong with my dual boot.
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If I understand well about your problem then actually there is no
problem at all. Definately from any system boot your partition C size
would remain the same. Dual boot doesn't mean your C will be replaced
by D if you are booting from D drive. If you are booting from D drive
(15 gig partition) then D is your system root drive and similarly for
others.
 
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