Dual Boot - Both as 'C' Drive

[Guest]

Need to setup a dual boot of Win 2000 Pro and Win XP Pro where both Operating
Systems will been seen as the 'C' drive.

Installed Win 2000 Pro on a clean PC and saved image to network.

Installed Win XP Pro on a clean PC and saved image to network.

Restored Win 2000 Pro image to clean 40 GB disk and put it in a Primary
Partition of 20 GB.

Restored Win XP Pro image to Primary Partition into remainder of free space.

Installed Boot Manager.

Win 2000 Pro boots up fine as 'C' drive and I am able to hide the Win XP Pro
drive.

Win XP Pro will not go past the startup screen. I am guessing it is due to
it being created as 'C' drive but on bootup it may been seen as the 'D'
drive. (Assuming the 'C' drive is seen as the Win 2000 Pro partition)

Based on the requirements, I need both OS's on the PC and both to be seen as
the 'C' drive.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks,

Jody Barber

 

[Ron Martell]

"Dual Boot Win 2000 and Win XP" <Dual Boot Win 2000 and Win

Need to setup a dual boot of Win 2000 Pro and Win XP Pro where both Operating
Systems will been seen as the 'C' drive.

Installed Win 2000 Pro on a clean PC and saved image to network.

Installed Win XP Pro on a clean PC and saved image to network.

Restored Win 2000 Pro image to clean 40 GB disk and put it in a Primary
Partition of 20 GB.

Restored Win XP Pro image to Primary Partition into remainder of free space.

Installed Boot Manager.

Win 2000 Pro boots up fine as 'C' drive and I am able to hide the Win XP Pro
drive.

Win XP Pro will not go past the startup screen. I am guessing it is due to
it being created as 'C' drive but on bootup it may been seen as the 'D'
drive. (Assuming the 'C' drive is seen as the Win 2000 Pro partition)

Based on the requirements, I need both OS's on the PC and both to be seen as
the 'C' drive.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

What are you using for the Boot Manager. You need something
comparable to Boot Magic (part of Symantec's Partition Magic) or
BootItNG (www.bootitng.com) and you need to configure the boot manager
so that the non-booting operating system partitions are hidden.

I use BootItNG and normally have 2 or 3 different versions of Windows
installed, all of which boot as drive C:

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"Dual Boot Win 2000 and Win XP" <Dual Boot Win 2000 and Win
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Need to setup a dual boot of Win 2000 Pro and Win XP Pro where both Operating
Systems will been seen as the 'C' drive.

Installed Win 2000 Pro on a clean PC and saved image to network.

Installed Win XP Pro on a clean PC and saved image to network.

Restored Win 2000 Pro image to clean 40 GB disk and put it in a Primary
Partition of 20 GB.

Restored Win XP Pro image to Primary Partition into remainder of free space.

Installed Boot Manager.

Win 2000 Pro boots up fine as 'C' drive and I am able to hide the Win XP Pro
drive.

Win XP Pro will not go past the startup screen. I am guessing it is due to
it being created as 'C' drive but on bootup it may been seen as the 'D'
drive. (Assuming the 'C' drive is seen as the Win 2000 Pro partition)

Based on the requirements, I need both OS's on the PC and both to be seen as
the 'C' drive.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks,

Jody Barber

An alternative to the boot managers suggested by Ron,
you could also use XOSL. It can handle your requirements
with ease and it's free.

 

[Guest]

Ron:

Thanks for the reply. Tried BootItNg and it is working exactly as I need.

FYI: I tried Boot Magic and OSL2000 boot managers but they did not work the
way I needed.

Pegasus:

Thanks for your reply also. I checked out XOSL but it looked like it needs
to be installed into its own partition. This would not be desirable for my
situation. I am going to stick with BootItNg.


Regards,

Jody Barber