Dual Boot Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2003 Evaluation

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I am trying to complete my MCSA. I am trying to find out if I can have
Windows Server as a dual boot on my laptop with Windws XP PRO. If so, I do I
go about accomplishing this. Thanks for any help provided.
 
Baycando said:
I am trying to complete my MCSA. I am trying to find out if I can have
Windows Server as a dual boot on my laptop with Windws XP PRO. If so, I do I
go about accomplishing this. Thanks for any help provided.
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Your best bet would be to get a third-party boot
loader, e.g. XOSL, then install Win20003 in its
own partition, completely hidden away from WinXP.
This gives you total modularity and allows you to
do anything to Win2003 without affecting WinXP
in the least. Post again if you require further details.
 
Pegasus said:
do I



Your best bet would be to get a third-party boot
loader, e.g. XOSL, then install Win20003 in its
own partition, completely hidden away from WinXP.
This gives you total modularity and allows you to
do anything to Win2003 without affecting WinXP
in the least. Post again if you require further details.
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I just installed W2K3 Server Eval on a 2nd partition, 1st partition
holding WinXP Pro, of the same HDD. Completely without incident and
total piece of cake. Both OSes are perfectly happy coexisting with no
3rd party boot loader needed.

Steve N.
 
Steve N. said:
I just installed W2K3 Server Eval on a 2nd partition, 1st partition
holding WinXP Pro, of the same HDD. Completely without incident and
total piece of cake. Both OSes are perfectly happy coexisting with no
3rd party boot loader needed.

Steve N.
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Just about every day I answer questions such as "I used to
have a dual-boot machine with WinXP on the second
disk or partition. How can I remove the old partition OS
and partition?" This can be an involved process, which is
why it is always better to leave the two OSs independent
from each other. Yours are interdependent: They share
the same boot files, and the installation on drive D: depends
on the existance of drive C:. If you remove drive C: then
you're in trouble . . .
 
Pegasus said:
Just about every day I answer questions such as "I used to
have a dual-boot machine with WinXP on the second
disk or partition. How can I remove the old partition OS
and partition?" This can be an involved process, which is
why it is always better to leave the two OSs independent
from each other. Yours are interdependent: They share
the same boot files, and the installation on drive D: depends
on the existance of drive C:. If you remove drive C: then
you're in trouble . . .
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That's true and very good point, but if the OP installs XP to C:
partition and the 2K3 eval to D: partition on the same disk (it is a
laptop so there's most likely only one physical disk) there still should
be no difficulty removing the 2K3 eval from the mix later on and simply
editing boot.ini on C: or letting MSConfig do it.

In my test it is apparent that both OSes are happy with the boot files;
I did not need to backup and replace them as needed with an XP/2K dual boot.

Steve N.
 
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