2 Windows XP on same HD

[Jl_G_0]

I got a notebook running windows XP and 15GB of non-partitioned space
on the HD.
I want to install another windows xp there, but for personal use at
home, and the current instalation would be used to work at my company.
What I really want is to the work installation doesn't 'see' the files
from the 'personal partition'.
Is there a way to do it, or I will just lose my time trying ? Im
thinking on installing it, and change the boot.ini to add another
entry to the boot selector (partition(2) maybe) ...
If its possible to do it, what type of partition should I create ?

Thx.

 

[R. McCarty]

If you PC has adequate memory, I'd forget about a Side-by-Side
setup and use Microsoft Virtual PC instead. Using a virtualized PC
would keep it isolated from your primary setup. If networked it
would allow you to share Printers/Shares from your main PC. The
software 2004,SP1 is free. Only downside is USB peripherals will
not work under the VPC ( Except Mouse/Keyboard which gets a
PS2 style virtualization ).
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
*Windows XP under VPC should have as a minimum 256 Megabytes
of RAM allocated. If your PC is a newer Core/Core2Duo it will
also provide Hardware Virtualization that helps with performance.