Dual boot XP/XP Question

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I have two (legit) copies of XP Pro and am about to install the second one
on a separate partition. I'll use the second installation for testing
stuff.
Having never done this before do I have to reinstall all the software I have
on the first partition again?
I've already got the partitioning/booting questions sorted out by the way.
 
Yes, you do. Consider it a new installation.

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|I have two (legit) copies of XP Pro and am about to install the second one
| on a separate partition. I'll use the second installation for testing
| stuff.
| Having never done this before do I have to reinstall all the software I
have
| on the first partition again?
| I've already got the partitioning/booting questions sorted out by the way.
|
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| Peter
| Toronto, Canada
| XP Pro SP2
| P4 @ 3.0ghz, 2.0gb DDR, 360gb HD
|
|
 
Thanks Dave. I guess anything I have installed that isn't "OEM" (which my
MS Works unfortunately is) should be installed on the new partition.
I figured this was the case but wasn't sure.
My McAfee A/V and FW may not be allowed twice either....hmmmm!! <thinking
cap now on>.
 
Peter said:
I have two (legit) copies of XP Pro and am about to install the second one
on a separate partition. I'll use the second installation for testing
stuff.
Having never done this before do I have to reinstall all the software I have
on the first partition again?
I've already got the partitioning/booting questions sorted out by the way.
Click to expand...

I think you could clone your existing WinXP installation to the new
partition using Drive image or Norton Ghost. Then you could do a
repair installation to that partition using your second copy of WinXP.

Good luck, jimbo
 
Forgive me for mentioning this on a Microsoft board but after all of the
trouble I have running more than one Microsoft OS on the same computer and
different hard drives much less partitions I recently learned that it is
possible to install Linux as a host for virtual copies of Windows for testing
purposes. My understanding is that if you use Linux as the host then after a
major Windows crash you only have to reload the an image which only takes
about 10 seconds compared to what you have to do if you reload Windows from
scratch.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I find after a crash that it's best in the long
run to format/reinstall, but then that's only my opinion.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2
P4 @ 3.0ghz, 2.0gb DDR, 360gb HD
"(e-mail address removed)"
 
Peter said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I find after a crash that it's best in the long
run to format/reinstall, but then that's only my opinion.
Click to expand...

Have you considered MS Virtual PC? You can install an OS in a virtual
PC and experiment to your hearts content. If anything goes wrong, just
delete two files and start over. VPC runs as a WinXP application. I
have run several Linux distros, Win98, a couple of DOS versions and
WinXP as OSs on a virtual PC. Everything looks like a real PC running
the OS. I have noticed that performance as measured by Internet
download speed is about 2/3 that of an OS running on a real PC.

Good luck, jimbo
 
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