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Tim
Hi there,
Trying but failing to get 3 active partition's from 1 x 80 gig Maxtor drive.
Firstly I created one 20 gig active partition and 3 x 19 gig logical
partitions and loaded XP Pro onto the first active partition. Then I loaded
Casper XP and copied the first partition to logical partition 2 and then 3.
Then altered the boot.ini file for disk 2 to show partition 2 and for disk 3
to show partition 3.
Then using Partition Magic 8 I changed the logical partitions 2 and 3 to
primary and set logical partition 2 as active not a problem it booted up
when back into PM8 and set logical partition 3 as active tried to boot but
all I got was 'autochk not found' skipping autochk and then it just reboots.
So I tried the following text into each partitions boot.ini file
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro
(Backup on partition 2)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro
(Backup on partition 3)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
All works well it appears that each partition boots but if I change the
desktop picture in one partition it changes in the other 2 partitions
leaving me to think that the 3 independent partitions I thought I had made
are not.
So any ideas on how I can have 3 totally separate and independent partitions
by just copying 1 partition to the other 2 or am I going to have to do 3
separate installs to the 3 separate active partitions and use Boot Magic to
control the boot sequence?
Many thanks, Tim.
Trying but failing to get 3 active partition's from 1 x 80 gig Maxtor drive.
Firstly I created one 20 gig active partition and 3 x 19 gig logical
partitions and loaded XP Pro onto the first active partition. Then I loaded
Casper XP and copied the first partition to logical partition 2 and then 3.
Then altered the boot.ini file for disk 2 to show partition 2 and for disk 3
to show partition 3.
Then using Partition Magic 8 I changed the logical partitions 2 and 3 to
primary and set logical partition 2 as active not a problem it booted up
when back into PM8 and set logical partition 3 as active tried to boot but
all I got was 'autochk not found' skipping autochk and then it just reboots.
So I tried the following text into each partitions boot.ini file
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro
(Backup on partition 2)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro
(Backup on partition 3)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
All works well it appears that each partition boots but if I change the
desktop picture in one partition it changes in the other 2 partitions
leaving me to think that the 3 independent partitions I thought I had made
are not.
So any ideas on how I can have 3 totally separate and independent partitions
by just copying 1 partition to the other 2 or am I going to have to do 3
separate installs to the 3 separate active partitions and use Boot Magic to
control the boot sequence?
Many thanks, Tim.