Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?

Hi, mwm.

Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic rule,
which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary partition, or
logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in your computer).

With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let Setup run
again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to put the second
copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait until it is finished.
Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the new copy of WinXP; you will
need to choose each time you reboot. There will be only a single System
Partition (Drive C:, typically), plus a Boot Volume - where the \Windows
folder resides - for each installation. Often, C: is the Boot Volume for
the first copy of WinXP, as well as the System Partition. A typical setup
might have C:\Windows and D:\Windows.

That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some things. For
example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?) the time the opening
menu is displayed.

Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of WinXP
installed. But see this page from the online version of the WinXP Pro
Resource Kit:
Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp

URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in Chapter
28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact, there's LOTS of
good information in the RK that you might enjoy and learn from.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(E-Mail Removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

"mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, mwm.
>
> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in
> your computer).
> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let
> Setup run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to
> put the second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait
> until it is finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the
> new copy of WinXP; you will need to choose each time you reboot. There
> will be only a single System Partition (Drive C:, typically),
> plus a Boot Volume - where the \Windows folder resides - for each
> installation. Often, C: is the Boot Volume for the first copy of
> WinXP, as well as the System Partition. A typical setup might have
> C:\Windows and D:\Windows.
> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some
> things. For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?)
> the time the opening menu is displayed.
>
> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the
> WinXP Pro Resource Kit:
> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>
> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and
> learn from.
> RC
>
> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?

There is one thing that R.C. forgot to mention and that is you *CANNOT* dual
boot using the same key - if you wish to dual boot you will need to purchase
a second licence - otherwise you are in violation of the EULA and the second
installation will fail to activate.

--
In memory of MS MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/

R.C.,

I think this is the link you meant?!?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...h_dmt_jeon.asp

By the way, does this work for XP Home, as well, or just PRO edition?

r.


"R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, mwm.
>
> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in your
> computer).
>
> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let Setup
> run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to put the
> second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait until it is
> finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the new copy of WinXP;
> you will need to choose each time you reboot. There will be only a single
> System Partition (Drive C:, typically), plus a Boot Volume - where the
> \Windows folder resides - for each installation. Often, C: is the Boot
> Volume for the first copy of WinXP, as well as the System Partition. A
> typical setup might have C:\Windows and D:\Windows.
>
> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some things.
> For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?) the time the
> opening menu is displayed.
>
> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the WinXP
> Pro Resource Kit:
> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>
> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and learn
> from.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> (E-Mail Removed)
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?
>

"Miss Perspicacia Tick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1YGZd.12979$(E-Mail Removed)...
> R. C. White wrote:
>> Hi, mwm.
>>
>> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
>> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
>> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in
>> your computer).
>> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let
>> Setup run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to
>> put the second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait
>> until it is finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the
>> new copy of WinXP; you will need to choose each time you reboot. There
>> will be only a single System Partition (Drive C:, typically),
>> plus a Boot Volume - where the \Windows folder resides - for each
>> installation. Often, C: is the Boot Volume for the first copy of
>> WinXP, as well as the System Partition. A typical setup might have
>> C:\Windows and D:\Windows.
>> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some
>> things. For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?)
>> the time the opening menu is displayed.
>>
>> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
>> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the
>> WinXP Pro Resource Kit:
>> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>>
>> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
>> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
>> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and
>> learn from.
>> RC
>>
>> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?
>
> There is one thing that R.C. forgot to mention and that is you *CANNOT*
> dual boot using the same key - if you wish to dual boot you will need to
> purchase a second licence - otherwise you are in violation of the EULA and
> the second installation will fail to activate.
>

Exactly how is this in violation of the EULA, as it says one PC per license,
and that key is being used on only one PC. Also, the key will activate just
fine, since the hard hash is exactly the same. By the way, I bought the
software, not a license.

Hi, namniar.

> I think this is the link you meant?!?

Nope. When I clicked that one, it took me to the Power Management chapter.
:>(

I just can't seem to learn the secret to getting the right URL to deliver me
to the page I want in the online RK. But if you get into the RK at all,
just follow this path: Welcome > Part VI System Troubleshooting > Ch 28
Troubleshooting Startup > Following a Process for Startup and Recovery.
Then click on Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation.
The first paragraph says, "Infrequently, startup files and critical areas on
the hard disk become corrupted. If you are mainly concerned with salvaging
readable data files and using the Backup tool to copy them to backup media
or a network location, you can perform a parallel Windows XP Professional
installation."

I don't really want to get into the interpretation and legality of the EULA,
since I'm not a lawyer and I can see (at least) two interpretations of the
language. As I said earlier, many experts think it prohibits dual-booting
multiple copies on a single computer with a single WinXP license. This is
obviously Miss Tick's view, although her final statement ("...the second
installation will fail to activate.") is demonstrably wrong since I (and
many others) have done this several times with no activation problems. WPA
will allow the same license to be installed on the same computer an
unlimited number of times, with or without deleting earlier copies. But the
fact that Microsoft Press publishes instructions on how to do a parallel
install in their official documentation tells me that it is permissible, at
least sometimes. Of course, in a dual-boot system, no more than one copy of
WinXP can be running at any one time; to run the second copy we have to
reboot, which exits the first copy. And the RK seems to expect that the
parallel install would be temporary, only for salvaging files from a corrupt
disk, but it does not clearly state that it must not be permanent, or that
there cannot be more than two parallel installs.

I've never had WinXP Home and I don't know for sure if the parallel install
(or dual-boot) would work. But it has worked for me with WinNT4, Win2K Pro,
WinXP Pro, Win2K3 Server and Longhorn, so I expect it would work fine with
WinXP Home. By the way, you can also have a single instance of Win9x/ME
installed along with multiple instances of Win2K/XP, etc.; it's easy if
Win9x/ME is installed FIRST and the newest Windows is installed LAST.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(E-Mail Removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

"namniar" <this@that> wrote in message
news:u0%(E-Mail Removed)...
> R.C.,
>
> I think this is the link you meant?!?
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...h_dmt_jeon.asp
>
> By the way, does this work for XP Home, as well, or just PRO edition?
>
> r.
>
>
> "R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi, mwm.
>>
>> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
>> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
>> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in your
>> computer).
>>
>> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let Setup
>> run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to put the
>> second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait until it is
>> finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the new copy of WinXP;
>> you will need to choose each time you reboot. There will be only a
>> single System Partition (Drive C:, typically), plus a Boot Volume - where
>> the \Windows folder resides - for each installation. Often, C: is the
>> Boot Volume for the first copy of WinXP, as well as the System Partition.
>> A typical setup might have C:\Windows and D:\Windows.
>>
>> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some things.
>> For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?) the time the
>> opening menu is displayed.
>>
>> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
>> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the WinXP
>> Pro Resource Kit:
>> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>>
>> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
>> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
>> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and learn
>> from.
>>
>> RC
>>
>> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?

no you did not buy the software
you bought a copy of the licence


"Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Miss Perspicacia Tick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1YGZd.12979$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> R. C. White wrote:
>>> Hi, mwm.
>>>
>>> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
>>> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
>>> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in
>>> your computer).
>>> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let
>>> Setup run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to
>>> put the second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait
>>> until it is finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the
>>> new copy of WinXP; you will need to choose each time you reboot. There
>>> will be only a single System Partition (Drive C:, typically),
>>> plus a Boot Volume - where the \Windows folder resides - for each
>>> installation. Often, C: is the Boot Volume for the first copy of
>>> WinXP, as well as the System Partition. A typical setup might have
>>> C:\Windows and D:\Windows.
>>> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some
>>> things. For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?)
>>> the time the opening menu is displayed.
>>>
>>> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
>>> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the
>>> WinXP Pro Resource Kit:
>>> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>>>
>>> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
>>> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
>>> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and
>>> learn from.
>>> RC
>>>
>>> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?
>>
>> There is one thing that R.C. forgot to mention and that is you *CANNOT*
>> dual boot using the same key - if you wish to dual boot you will need to
>> purchase a second licence - otherwise you are in violation of the EULA
>> and the second installation will fail to activate.
>>
>
> Exactly how is this in violation of the EULA, as it says one PC per
> license, and that key is being used on only one PC. Also, the key will
> activate just fine, since the hard hash is exactly the same. By the way, I
> bought the software, not a license.
>

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...h_dmt_jeon.asp

Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation

Infrequently, startup files and critical areas on the hard disk become
corrupted. If you are mainly concerned with salvaging readable data files
and using the Backup tool to copy them to backup media or a network
location, you can perform a parallel Windows XP Professional installation.



my comments



Please note that the purpose of dual boot 1 licence WinXP is to salvage data
files and not to run 2 copies of WinXP in 1 computer system. After the data
files are recovered, users are advise to format the hard disk and reinstall
WinXP + SP2 + SP3

Activating the 2nd copy is not necessary since it will be deleted after data
are recovered.

Legally you cannot run 2 copies of WinXP in one system, but if without
morals, you can.






"R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, namniar.
>
>> I think this is the link you meant?!?
>
> Nope. When I clicked that one, it took me to the Power Management
> chapter. :>(
>
> I just can't seem to learn the secret to getting the right URL to deliver
> me to the page I want in the online RK. But if you get into the RK at
> all, just follow this path: Welcome > Part VI System Troubleshooting >
> Ch 28 Troubleshooting Startup > Following a Process for Startup and
> Recovery. Then click on Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional
> Installation. The first paragraph says, "Infrequently, startup files and
> critical areas on the hard disk become corrupted. If you are mainly
> concerned with salvaging readable data files and using the Backup tool to
> copy them to backup media or a network location, you can perform a
> parallel Windows XP Professional installation."
>
> I don't really want to get into the interpretation and legality of the
> EULA, since I'm not a lawyer and I can see (at least) two interpretations
> of the language. As I said earlier, many experts think it prohibits
> dual-booting multiple copies on a single computer with a single WinXP
> license. This is obviously Miss Tick's view, although her final statement
> ("...the second
> installation will fail to activate.") is demonstrably wrong since I (and
> many others) have done this several times with no activation problems.
> WPA will allow the same license to be installed on the same computer an
> unlimited number of times, with or without deleting earlier copies. But
> the fact that Microsoft Press publishes instructions on how to do a
> parallel install in their official documentation tells me that it is
> permissible, at least sometimes. Of course, in a dual-boot system, no
> more than one copy of WinXP can be running at any one time; to run the
> second copy we have to reboot, which exits the first copy. And the RK
> seems to expect that the parallel install would be temporary, only for
> salvaging files from a corrupt disk, but it does not clearly state that it
> must not be permanent, or that there cannot be more than two parallel
> installs.
>
> I've never had WinXP Home and I don't know for sure if the parallel
> install (or dual-boot) would work. But it has worked for me with WinNT4,
> Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, Win2K3 Server and Longhorn, so I expect it would
> work fine with WinXP Home. By the way, you can also have a single
> instance of Win9x/ME installed along with multiple instances of Win2K/XP,
> etc.; it's easy if Win9x/ME is installed FIRST and the newest Windows is
> installed LAST.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> (E-Mail Removed)
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "namniar" <this@that> wrote in message
> news:u0%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> R.C.,
>>
>> I think this is the link you meant?!?
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...h_dmt_jeon.asp
>>
>> By the way, does this work for XP Home, as well, or just PRO edition?
>>
>> r.
>>
>>
>> "R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hi, mwm.
>>>
>>> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
>>> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
>>> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in your
>>> computer).
>>>
>>> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let Setup
>>> run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to put the
>>> second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait until it is
>>> finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the new copy of
>>> WinXP; you will need to choose each time you reboot. There will be only
>>> a single System Partition (Drive C:, typically), plus a Boot Volume -
>>> where the \Windows folder resides - for each installation. Often, C: is
>>> the Boot Volume for the first copy of WinXP, as well as the System
>>> Partition. A typical setup might have C:\Windows and D:\Windows.
>>>
>>> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some things.
>>> For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?) the time the
>>> opening menu is displayed.
>>>
>>> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
>>> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the WinXP
>>> Pro Resource Kit:
>>> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>>>
>>> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
>>> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
>>> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and
>>> learn from.
>>>
>>> RC
>>>
>>> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?
>

Thank you,

r.

"D@annyBoy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...h_dmt_jeon.asp
>
> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
>
> Infrequently, startup files and critical areas on the hard disk become
> corrupted. If you are mainly concerned with salvaging readable data files
> and using the Backup tool to copy them to backup media or a network
> location, you can perform a parallel Windows XP Professional installation.
>
>
>
> my comments
>
>
>
> Please note that the purpose of dual boot 1 licence WinXP is to salvage
> data files and not to run 2 copies of WinXP in 1 computer system. After
> the data files are recovered, users are advise to format the hard disk and
> reinstall WinXP + SP2 + SP3
>
> Activating the 2nd copy is not necessary since it will be deleted after
> data are recovered.
>
> Legally you cannot run 2 copies of WinXP in one system, but if without
> morals, you can.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi, namniar.
>>
>>> I think this is the link you meant?!?
>>
>> Nope. When I clicked that one, it took me to the Power Management
>> chapter. :>(
>>
>> I just can't seem to learn the secret to getting the right URL to deliver
>> me to the page I want in the online RK. But if you get into the RK at
>> all, just follow this path: Welcome > Part VI System Troubleshooting >
>> Ch 28 Troubleshooting Startup > Following a Process for Startup and
>> Recovery. Then click on Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional
>> Installation. The first paragraph says, "Infrequently, startup files and
>> critical areas on the hard disk become corrupted. If you are mainly
>> concerned with salvaging readable data files and using the Backup tool to
>> copy them to backup media or a network location, you can perform a
>> parallel Windows XP Professional installation."
>>
>> I don't really want to get into the interpretation and legality of the
>> EULA, since I'm not a lawyer and I can see (at least) two interpretations
>> of the language. As I said earlier, many experts think it prohibits
>> dual-booting multiple copies on a single computer with a single WinXP
>> license. This is obviously Miss Tick's view, although her final
>> statement ("...the second
>> installation will fail to activate.") is demonstrably wrong since I (and
>> many others) have done this several times with no activation problems.
>> WPA will allow the same license to be installed on the same computer an
>> unlimited number of times, with or without deleting earlier copies. But
>> the fact that Microsoft Press publishes instructions on how to do a
>> parallel install in their official documentation tells me that it is
>> permissible, at least sometimes. Of course, in a dual-boot system, no
>> more than one copy of WinXP can be running at any one time; to run the
>> second copy we have to reboot, which exits the first copy. And the RK
>> seems to expect that the parallel install would be temporary, only for
>> salvaging files from a corrupt disk, but it does not clearly state that
>> it must not be permanent, or that there cannot be more than two parallel
>> installs.
>>
>> I've never had WinXP Home and I don't know for sure if the parallel
>> install (or dual-boot) would work. But it has worked for me with WinNT4,
>> Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, Win2K3 Server and Longhorn, so I expect it would
>> work fine with WinXP Home. By the way, you can also have a single
>> instance of Win9x/ME installed along with multiple instances of Win2K/XP,
>> etc.; it's easy if Win9x/ME is installed FIRST and the newest Windows is
>> installed LAST.
>>
>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> (E-Mail Removed)
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>>
>> "namniar" <this@that> wrote in message
>> news:u0%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> R.C.,
>>>
>>> I think this is the link you meant?!?
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...h_dmt_jeon.asp
>>>
>>> By the way, does this work for XP Home, as well, or just PRO edition?
>>>
>>> r.
>>>
>>>
>>> "R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Hi, mwm.
>>>>
>>>> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
>>>> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
>>>> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in your
>>>> computer).
>>>>
>>>> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let Setup
>>>> run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to put the
>>>> second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait until it is
>>>> finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the new copy of
>>>> WinXP; you will need to choose each time you reboot. There will be
>>>> only a single System Partition (Drive C:, typically), plus a Boot
>>>> Volume - where the \Windows folder resides - for each installation.
>>>> Often, C: is the Boot Volume for the first copy of WinXP, as well as
>>>> the System Partition. A typical setup might have C:\Windows and
>>>> D:\Windows.
>>>>
>>>> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some things.
>>>> For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?) the time
>>>> the opening menu is displayed.
>>>>
>>>> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
>>>> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the
>>>> WinXP Pro Resource Kit:
>>>> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>>>>
>>>> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
>>>> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
>>>> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and
>>>> learn from.
>>>>
>>>> RC
>>>>
>>>> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>>> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?
>>
>
>

Thank you,

r.

"R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, namniar.
>
>> I think this is the link you meant?!?
>
> Nope. When I clicked that one, it took me to the Power Management
> chapter. :>(
>
> I just can't seem to learn the secret to getting the right URL to deliver
> me to the page I want in the online RK. But if you get into the RK at
> all, just follow this path: Welcome > Part VI System Troubleshooting >
> Ch 28 Troubleshooting Startup > Following a Process for Startup and
> Recovery. Then click on Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional
> Installation. The first paragraph says, "Infrequently, startup files and
> critical areas on the hard disk become corrupted. If you are mainly
> concerned with salvaging readable data files and using the Backup tool to
> copy them to backup media or a network location, you can perform a
> parallel Windows XP Professional installation."
>
> I don't really want to get into the interpretation and legality of the
> EULA, since I'm not a lawyer and I can see (at least) two interpretations
> of the language. As I said earlier, many experts think it prohibits
> dual-booting multiple copies on a single computer with a single WinXP
> license. This is obviously Miss Tick's view, although her final statement
> ("...the second
> installation will fail to activate.") is demonstrably wrong since I (and
> many others) have done this several times with no activation problems.
> WPA will allow the same license to be installed on the same computer an
> unlimited number of times, with or without deleting earlier copies. But
> the fact that Microsoft Press publishes instructions on how to do a
> parallel install in their official documentation tells me that it is
> permissible, at least sometimes. Of course, in a dual-boot system, no
> more than one copy of WinXP can be running at any one time; to run the
> second copy we have to reboot, which exits the first copy. And the RK
> seems to expect that the parallel install would be temporary, only for
> salvaging files from a corrupt disk, but it does not clearly state that it
> must not be permanent, or that there cannot be more than two parallel
> installs.
>
> I've never had WinXP Home and I don't know for sure if the parallel
> install (or dual-boot) would work. But it has worked for me with WinNT4,
> Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, Win2K3 Server and Longhorn, so I expect it would
> work fine with WinXP Home. By the way, you can also have a single
> instance of Win9x/ME installed along with multiple instances of Win2K/XP,
> etc.; it's easy if Win9x/ME is installed FIRST and the newest Windows is
> installed LAST.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> (E-Mail Removed)
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "namniar" <this@that> wrote in message
> news:u0%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> R.C.,
>>
>> I think this is the link you meant?!?
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...h_dmt_jeon.asp
>>
>> By the way, does this work for XP Home, as well, or just PRO edition?
>>
>> r.
>>
>>
>> "R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hi, mwm.
>>>
>>> Yep! It's easy. Automatic, in fact, so long as you follow the basic
>>> rule, which is to install each copy into a different volume (primary
>>> partition, or logical drive in an extended partition, on any HD in your
>>> computer).
>>>
>>> With the first copy installed, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and let Setup
>>> run again. Tell it to do a clean install and tell it where to put the
>>> second copy (D:? E:? X:?). Then just sit back and wait until it is
>>> finished. Setup will update C:\boot.ini to include the new copy of
>>> WinXP; you will need to choose each time you reboot. There will be only
>>> a single System Partition (Drive C:, typically), plus a Boot Volume -
>>> where the \Windows folder resides - for each installation. Often, C: is
>>> the Boot Volume for the first copy of WinXP, as well as the System
>>> Partition. A typical setup might have C:\Windows and D:\Windows.
>>>
>>> That's all there is to it, although you may want to tweak some things.
>>> For example, you can edit C:\boot.ini to shorten (to zero?) the time the
>>> opening menu is displayed.
>>>
>>> Some worry that the EULA requires a separate license for each copy of
>>> WinXP installed. But see this page from the online version of the WinXP
>>> Pro Resource Kit:
>>> Performing a Parallel Windows XP Professional Installation
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp
>>>
>>> URLs don't always hit the page I'm aiming at in the RK, but it's in
>>> Chapter 28, Troubleshooting Startup, in case you get lost. In fact,
>>> there's LOTS of good information in the RK that you might enjoy and
>>> learn from.
>>>
>>> RC
>>>
>>> "mwm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:4DEB2001-641B-40C3-9DAA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Has anyone tried to dual boot xp with xp. if so how do you do it?
>