Dual OSs of XP

[Guest]

I have a laptop running XP Home. I want to install another copy of XP Home
on the laptop for gaming--my laptop has all this stuff running in the
background that affects performance and it would be nice to having a clean
install of Windows for this purpose.

I have a 60GB HD, and multiple partitions already: C, D, E, G. I've
installed XP on a new partition called F.

I'm letting Windows XP handle my dual OSs, and my question is: when I log
into my gaming-only copy of XP, the drive my OS shows up on is "F"...since
"C" is usually where the OS is, might there be problems running programs that
are going to look specifically for "C", assuming that's the primary
partition? Is there a way to hide my "C" drive so this doesn't happen?

Thanks.

 

[gs]

I guess there are programs insisting being installed in C: or write to C:
As long as there is enough space and as long as it does not write to the
C:\windows directory, you should be fine.


As of hiding, you buy something like partition magic. However you may have
a little problem setting up

 

[DL]

An observation; you would appear to have to many partitions on such a small
hd ie the size of these must be somewhat small for any meaningfull use.
Apart from the possible licencing issues of two installations, you can
allways shutdown background apps

 

[Guest]

A better way to do this is to use a bootloader such as that with Ranish
partition manager.

That way, the boot partition will always be the active one, and hence will
always be C: - the inactive OS being shifted to another letter.

The reason your second OS eded-up as F: is because the partiition it was
installed-to was not the active one. Unfortunately, once in this suituation
the only remedy is to repeat the install.