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Sunny
Yesterday I had a perfectly good Windows ME.
PC has 2 hard drives and had/has Partition Magic 8.01 dividing them up into
2 x 40Gb each.
Using PM8 and Boot Magic I halved the "C" drive and installed Win XP Home.
I goofed during the install by "pressing any key" and the copying of files
occurred twice.
After that the PC booted into WinXP (not boot magic) and, I am in the
process of re-installing the zillions of applications.
I had to change drive letters for CDROM and CDRW, but WINXP still recognizes
the hard drives as partitioned and I can access all partitions but the
original "C" with WinME (hidden).
The original "C" partition of 20 Gb with ME seems to be still there, but?
After I get WinXP running, I thought that I might install PM8.01 and Boot
Magic to see what happens?
Just stumbling through all this, and any advice would be greatly
appreciated.
When the PC boots now I get a screen with (among other things):
"Windows XP Home Edition"
"Windows XP Home Edition"
Use up/down arrows to select.
So far I have left the top one selected and pressed "Enter", then XP boots
up as normal.
Big enough goof? (for someone who wanted a dual boot sysytem)
PC has 2 hard drives and had/has Partition Magic 8.01 dividing them up into
2 x 40Gb each.
Using PM8 and Boot Magic I halved the "C" drive and installed Win XP Home.
I goofed during the install by "pressing any key" and the copying of files
occurred twice.
After that the PC booted into WinXP (not boot magic) and, I am in the
process of re-installing the zillions of applications.
I had to change drive letters for CDROM and CDRW, but WINXP still recognizes
the hard drives as partitioned and I can access all partitions but the
original "C" with WinME (hidden).
The original "C" partition of 20 Gb with ME seems to be still there, but?
After I get WinXP running, I thought that I might install PM8.01 and Boot
Magic to see what happens?
Just stumbling through all this, and any advice would be greatly
appreciated.
When the PC boots now I get a screen with (among other things):
"Windows XP Home Edition"
"Windows XP Home Edition"
Use up/down arrows to select.
So far I have left the top one selected and pressed "Enter", then XP boots
up as normal.
Big enough goof? (for someone who wanted a dual boot sysytem)