Dual Booting

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Hi, I am running XP Home with no problems but just started a course that
requires XP Pro. A 120 trail version of pro comes with the course material
but I don't want to use it to upgrade as I see there being problems when I
want to revert back to home.

I thinking of doing a clean install and creating 3 partions. One for each op
and one for my files. Any comments.

Thanks.
 
colinlam said:
Hi, I am running XP Home with no problems but just started a course
that
requires XP Pro. A 120 trail version of pro comes with the course
material
but I don't want to use it to upgrade as I see there being problems
when I
want to revert back to home.

I thinking of doing a clean install and creating 3 partions. One for
each op
and one for my files. Any comments.

Thanks.
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You might want to check out BING (Boot It Next Generation)
from Terabyte at http://www.terabyteinc.com/bootitng.html
A bit geeky, but inexpensive, lots of people like it and they
have a support newsgroup where questions are actually
answered the same day usually !! Allows you to do all sorts
of things with partitions as well as supporting multi-booting.
Their support page is
http://www.terabyteinc.com/support.html
and has information on how to set up to read their news
groups (lots of good info there).

mikey
 
BootIt Next Generation ( http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ ) is shareware,
not freeware, but it comes with a 30-day free trial, and you can resize
your partitions with it.

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

Boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on
Partition work.

http://www.heffy.com/image.htm

You will have to resize C, then you can use XP Disk Management to create and
format new partitions.
 
You have the right idea for the dual boot system and partitions (for most
people IMHO)

What exactly does the course require that is not in XP home? The advice you
already had is the best if you can possibly afford it. If the course does
need something that is not in XP Home then how will you use that knowledge
with only XP Home to play with.

Not trying to "Sell" anything, just wondering if the extra trouble you will
have to go to will prove useless in the longer term :)

Charlie
 
Well it's a question of whether you are actually going to need anything from
Pro afterwards really. I mean there's no difference at all except for the
functionality that's not in XP Home... it looks just the same... but if you
want to learn more about OS workings then Pro is the thing to stick with
because (for example) if you wanted to progress to server stuff almost all
of the server stuff is in there too, which means you can go on to learn some
useful stuff about IIS and related things.

Where 98 was a user system that people tried to add things to, XP Pro is
more like an advanced server with a few things you wouldn't use taken out.
Sure it is not a true "Server" but that is mostly licensing restraints, and
the server version (2003 more or less) doesn't have handy things like movie
maker, so for anyone interested in a bit more than the basics I think XP Pro
is good value for money.

Be interesting to see if anyone agrees with my simplified assessment :)

Charlie
 
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