Dual boot XP

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Jey

Hi there,

I am planning to have two windows XP installtion on the
same PC with dual boot, how do I do this with IDE drives


Thanks
 
A user wants to have two set of configuration, one with
office xp, and other with ofice 2000
 
You need 2 drives or Partitions
The older OS needs to be installed first onto the "C" drive
Then from within this OS install XP as a new installation onto the other
partition.
XP will overwrite the boot sector of "C" to load the dual boot...as such "C"
cannot be formatted without losing the ability to boot.Any programs that the
user wishes to use in both OS need to be installed twice..once under each
OS.
When I did this I used 2 HD divided into 4 partitions....C for ME..D for XP
...E for ME programs..F for XP programs
good luck
peter
 
Thanks, Peter
Let me try this , hope I can format the drive with NTFS
for dual boot in XP

-----Original Message-----
You need 2 drives or Partitions
The older OS needs to be installed first onto the "C" drive
Then from within this OS install XP as a new installation onto the other
partition.
XP will overwrite the boot sector of "C" to load the dual boot...as such "C"
cannot be formatted without losing the ability to boot.Any programs that the
user wishes to use in both OS need to be installed twice..once under each
OS.
When I did this I used 2 HD divided into 4
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partitions....C for ME..D for XP
 
For this, you will need a third-party boot management tool, such as
Partition Magic (now owned by Symantec) or BootIt NG (www.bootitng.com) to
manage the boot process. The crude native tools that ship with Windows won't
let you do what you plan to do without a hardware finagle in the BIOS.
 
No need for third party software. You do need two copies of XP though to
keep it legal.

Why not just install both versions of Office on the same installation.
First move the original shorcuts to a temporary folder. Then install the
second version of Office to a different folder. The only thing you won't be
able to run at the same time is the shortcut toolbar.
 
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