Can't dualboot XP & XP

[Stan]

Building my own computer I formatted an 80Gb drive into 2 10Gb primary
partitions and one 10Gb extended partition. I had no problem installing XP
Pro into the first partition. While I can install XP Pro into the 2nd
primary partition, booting to the first partition (which displays all the
proper system files) shows the 2nd primary partition as F:\Local disk (with
only the page and hiber files in the root) and a complete installation of
XP folders.

Booting to the 2nd partition gives the *same* C: partition, except with no
system files, and the same F: partition with no system files in the root.

Boot.ini shows that there are 2 different bootable partitions.

I would have thought that XP would hide one primary partition from the
other. (I use PQ BootMagic on another computer with 3 Windows partitions
and that is exactly what happens.) So, how do I do that?

 

[Myron J. Mandell]

This is the normal Windows behavior.

If you want to hide partitions, you need to use third-party software.

Myron

 

[Stan]

This is the normal Windows behavior.

If you want to hide partitions, you need to use third-party software.

Perhaps I should have added that I *did* install BootMagic on one
partition. That didn't work: you still get the XP boot choice screen and,
depending on which partition you choose from the BM screen you may not be
able to boot at all.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

WinXP doesn't hide partitions. Please post the contents of your boot.ini
file (do not attach it, copy/paste the contents into a reply).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Stan]

Hi,

WinXP doesn't hide partitions. Please post the contents of your boot.ini
file (do not attach it, copy/paste the contents into a reply).

[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" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Previous Operating System on C:"

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Well, you are definitely loading two different installations. I suspect that
in the latter one you are set not to show hidden and system files.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

Hi,

WinXP doesn't hide partitions. Please post the contents of your boot.ini
file (do not attach it, copy/paste the contents into a reply).

[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" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Previous Operating System on C:"

 

[Stan]

Hi,

Well, you are definitely loading two different installations. I
suspect that in the latter one you are set not to show hidden and
system files.

No, that is not the case.