hidden installation

[Dollman]

Hi,

I have an computer with xp pro installed on a 80G HDD and I want to
have a second partition with a seperate install of xp on that second
partition. The gag is- I don't want to be able to see the 2nd
partition from the first and I want a boot disk(of some sort) required
to boot to the second installed OS.

So, 2 40Gig partitions with separate installs of XP and the second
install requires some kind of 'key' to boot from it and be invisible
from the first partition. Is this do-able? Should be, but my brain
isn't big enough to figure it out...

Chaoboy

 

[Rich Barry]

Sure, the easiest way is to format your first XP version in Fat32.
Format the second version in NTFS.
You will have to make some adjustments to the boot.ini file that
resides on your fat32 version.
Change the timeout value from 30seconds to 2 secs. and select
the fat32 version to be the default.
You may have to make a minor change to the seconds value. Depends how
fast your fingers are.

No doubt you will probably get more sophisticated ways of doing it.