Dual Booting

[Thomas]

Hi i have dual booting with windoes xp pro and windows home.....is there a
way i can switch between the two operating system with out doing a
restart...pls
any help ..

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

Truly the stupidest question I've ever heard on any newsgroup.

 

[RJK]

There's no harm in asking, you could have given him a polite "No" ,and
perhaps bit of an explanation at to why not, instead of an a***hole like
response. But then you're obviously an a***hole !

regards, Richard

 

[Linda B]

Golly, that sure was helpful.

No, Thomas -- there's no way to switch between the OS's without
restarting... sorry.

--LB

 

[Steve Shattuck]

Truly the stupidest question I've ever heard on any newsgroup.

Actually, the person that posted the message about the Default and All Users
accounts with the tirade about it's got to stop was the stupidest question
posted today. That one was posted by Sleepless in Seattle......oops that's
you.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi i have dual booting with windoes xp pro and windows home.....is there a
way i can switch between the two operating system with out doing a
restart...pls
any help ..

Not while you have a dual-boot configuration, no, there isn't. You
could, however, abandon the dual-boot configuration and use an emulator
like VirtualPC or VMWare to run one (or more) operating system from
within another.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Truly the stupidest question I've ever heard on any newsgroup.

Is this your first newsgroup, then?


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[RJK]

....and you seem to be using your real email address, which will be loved by
email harvesters
Countless spam emails heading your way, hope you enjoy them.

regards, Richard

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Truly the stupidest question I've ever heard on any newsgroup.

I'm with you there - looks like we have our second candidate for Moron of
the Month in the Windows category.

 

[Mike Hall]

Stick around, Sleepless.. the ride is fast and full of laughs..

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[Terry]

On 1/21/2005 6:09 PM On a whim, Miss Perspicacia Tick pounded out on the
keyboard

I'm with you there - looks like we have our second candidate for Moron of
the Month in the Windows category.

If that was the stupidest question, then here are the stupidest answers!

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[Rush]

There's no harm in asking, you could have given him a polite "No" ,and
perhaps bit of an explanation at to why not, instead of an a***hole like
response. But then you're obviously an a***hole !

regards, Richard

Exactly Richard... It was completely uncalled for.
Ahhhh, egos!
I guess some folks were 'experts' as soon as their fired up their first
box.


Rush
http://www.bythedrop.com

 

[mrpsychology]

I have multiple hardrives on my pc, i have 3 of them. And of course i dont
run the two os's at same time, but i can use them both simealtaneously. I
have xp pro on my sata raptor drives, and on my ide i have x64 xp pro, and i
often go to the ide and use files from that drive while logged onto my 32bit
xp pro. I do understand that you may have only one hardrive so maybe it is
different for you. But, i have no problems sending files to each hardrive
and using them from each drive. It makes reinstalling windows painless!!!!
I have 4.5 days worth of music on my iTunes and it took a while to import
all that music from cd, well now with this multiple hardrive system, i can
just send the music to the other os on the other hardrive in minutes!!!
Then i go install and then send the files back, it is really cool, now i
understand why people have multiple hardrives!!! Yeah but one can say,
having 3 hardrives on this computer may be over the top lol.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have multiple hardrives on my pc, i have 3 of them. And of course i dont
run the two os's at same time, but i can use them both simealtaneously. I
have xp pro on my sata raptor drives, and on my ide i have x64 xp pro, and i
often go to the ide and use files from that drive while logged onto my 32bit
xp pro. I do understand that you may have only one hardrive so maybe it is
different for you. But, i have no problems sending files to each hardrive
and using them from each drive. It makes reinstalling windows painless!!!!
I have 4.5 days worth of music on my iTunes and it took a while to import
all that music from cd, well now with this multiple hardrive system, i can
just send the music to the other os on the other hardrive in minutes!!!
Then i go install and then send the files back, it is really cool, now i
understand why people have multiple hardrives!!! Yeah but one can say,
having 3 hardrives on this computer may be over the top lol.

Did you, by any chance, reply to the wrong post? I can't see how
anything above is even remotely related to my post in particular, or
this thread in general, for that matter.

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[mrpsychology]

Did you, by any chance, reply to the wrong post? I can't see how anything
above is even remotely related to my post in particular, or this thread in
general, for that matter.

Dual Booting is one hardrive, but if you have more than one you can on the
same computer have dual booting but you would have to go to bios and change
the boot priority and you can still interoperate by sending files and using
them per. But, yes actually now that you have mentioned it maybe i shoudl
have thought before replying.

 

[Terry]

On 1/22/2005 6:54 AM On a whim, mrpsychology pounded out on the keyboard

I have multiple hardrives on my pc, i have 3 of them. And of course i dont
run the two os's at same time, but i can use them both simealtaneously. I
have xp pro on my sata raptor drives, and on my ide i have x64 xp pro, and i
often go to the ide and use files from that drive while logged onto my 32bit
xp pro. I do understand that you may have only one hardrive so maybe it is
different for you. But, i have no problems sending files to each hardrive
and using them from each drive. It makes reinstalling windows painless!!!!
I have 4.5 days worth of music on my iTunes and it took a while to import
all that music from cd, well now with this multiple hardrive system, i can
just send the music to the other os on the other hardrive in minutes!!!
Then i go install and then send the files back, it is really cool, now i
understand why people have multiple hardrives!!! Yeah but one can say,
having 3 hardrives on this computer may be over the top lol.

Why wouldn't you create a data partition and just share it between your
OS's? I have 5 OS's, a data drive, a programs drive, a mirrored data
drive, all between 3 hard drives. It is much more efficient than copying
back and forth. You can also reduce the size of your OS drives to about
5 gig each since all they have on them is the OS (basically). And I
have backup partitions on separate physical drives of the OS's and
programs drive. I had 2 of the three drives fail within a year and
because I had redundant backups between the drives, nothing was lost.

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[mrpsychology]

On 1/22/2005 6:54 AM On a whim, mrpsychology pounded out on the keyboard


Why wouldn't you create a data partition and just share it between your
OS's? I have 5 OS's, a data drive, a programs drive, a mirrored data
drive, all between 3 hard drives. It is much more efficient than copying
back and forth. You can also reduce the size of your OS drives to about 5
gig each since all they have on them is the OS (basically). And I have
backup partitions on separate physical drives of the OS's and programs
drive. I had 2 of the three drives fail within a year and because I had
redundant backups between the drives, nothing was lost.

--
Terry
Well, i was dumb on the purchase of my hardrives and most were not
planned, so i dont have the same size on my satas 36 and 74. and my ide
250. I can use files on my x64 which is on my ide from my xp 32bit on my
sata, and it takes less than 5 minutes to copy 4.5days worth of iTunes
music to one place to the other. so, when it comes to reinstalling
windows if i have to i dont lose any data and dont have to have any
emulations of any sort. It is easy to boot either naturally and to have
the folders shared between the two. I have watched a movie on my 32bit os
using my x64 bits application absolutely fine, i dont need a virtual
machine when i am not prohibited. granted if i want to be logged on to
the x64 it is simple, 'restart' 'delete' go to 'boot priority' click ide
hit F10 and then it boots the ide as C, vice versa, but i am not closed to
operating or accessing any of them, so why would i need virtual machine?
Naturally, i was ging to get pearpc and emulate the mac os but decided
against it. One has to have a slow hardrive an old one to have long waits
on transfers between them. Jeeze it only takes a couple of minutes to
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[Bob I]

Why do you still have "Windows Home" installed, is what I want to know!