Advice on Dual Boot Systems

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I have two XP Pro installations on my hard drive.

I suspect there could be some issues regarding System Restore and paging
files, and some other too.

What practices are recommended in such configuration?
 
Emin said:
I have two XP Pro installations on my hard drive.

I suspect there could be some issues regarding System Restore and paging
files, and some other too.

What practices are recommended in such configuration?
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That they both be on separate partitions or drives. XP itself is capable
of mult-booting MS OS's out of the box. Boot.ini lists OS's for XP to
boot. If your boot.ini is mis-configured go here to set yours up...

http://www.sysinternals.com/Information/bootini.html

If you don't want one XP install to see the other XP install look into
Geurt Vos's free XOSL boot manager...

http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm

If you installed them both to the same partition - good luck!

John
 
|>I have two XP Pro installations on my hard drive.
|>
|>I suspect there could be some issues regarding System Restore and paging
|>files, and some other too.
|>
|>What practices are recommended in such configuration?

Turn off system restore and use ERUNT instead
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

As for a page file I just have them set to another partition. There's
a setting the GPEDIT.MSC that deletes a pagefile when the OS is
shutdown.
 
Thank you both!

Yes, each XP is on its own partition.

Hiding one XP from another is exactly what I wanted, I'll check out XOSL.

I'll give ERUNT a go, too.
 
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