xp dual boot

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Laura

Hello,
Can anyone tell me if you can dual boot 2 copies of WinXP
on 2 seperate hard drives (same computer)
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You can but i have known people have problems accessing the slave hard
drive. Personally, fi you are going to install two copies of XP, and you
have sufficient hard drive space, then i would install on the master hard
drive and leave the slave for backup and data.
I currently have an 80GB hard drive and installed on that is Windowx XP
Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows Server 2003.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
 
When installing the 2nd & 3rd copy of windows do you hide the previous
installations?

Locust
 
Locust, non of the other operating systems are hidden. If i boot up to say,
window server, i can still access files that are on windows media center and
windows xp partitions.
The only time you would have problems accessing other partitions is if you
install one version of XP using a fat32 file system and the second one using
an ntfs file system. Fat32 is unable to see an ntf file partition. Ntfs,
however, can see a fat32 partition.
Incidentally, and just as an afterthought, if you format your drive/patition
in ntfs file system you will be unable to use a dos startupdisk to
start/fdisk/format your drive because dos cannot see an ntfs file system.
When people ask me how to fromat the hard drive so they can reinstall xp i
sometimes say, 'if you have a windows 98 or Me start up disk, us that to
format the drive' This works fine on a fat32 fle system, but not an ntfs.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
 
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