Dual XP Pro operating system

[Guest]

I have a small home network (3 PC's) two with XP Pro and one with Win 98. The network works fine.

My question: Can I load 2 XP operating systems on one of the PC's. My wife is Chinese and we have XP Pro (English) on her computer. We have purchased XP Pro in Chinese for her also. I want to load both the English and the Chinese version on her PC if possible.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Tom

 

[Rob]

The only way I know to do what you ask is to use fdisk to
partition a second logical drive on you hard drive. Then
load the chinese version on the d: drive. At boot it will
prompt you to select an operating system.
There might be another way to have 2 seperate operating
systems on 1 pc, but others can tell you if there is.

-----Original Message-----
I have a small home network (3 PC's) two with XP Pro and

one with Win 98. The network works fine.

My question: Can I load 2 XP operating systems on one of

the PC's. My wife is Chinese and we have XP Pro (English)
on her computer. We have purchased XP Pro in Chinese for
her also. I want to load both the English and the Chinese
version on her PC if possible.

 

[kaydet]

A little easier than messing around with fdisk this one is.
Just throw in the CD (either) and reboot. then when it says boot from CD
drive do it. then you follow the steps and it will ask you what partition
you want to install on. Im not sure of the wording but somewhere there
should be something that allows you to delete the partition. (Youll lose all
of your data unless you use something like partition magic which messed up
my machine many times) delete your C: drive (assuming thats your HD. Then
install 2 partitions. you can chose the size so if you think the English
version is gonna be used less give more space to the chinese. then you
install whichever version is in the drive on either of your new partitions
and put the other one on the other partition.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Tom,

BING: Boot It Next Generation
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

Quick, easy and user friendly. Have been using it for years.




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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

For conflicting language versions of operating systems, and the
hiding of one's partition from another, I've found System Commander
from V-Communications very useful, in the past.


Bruce Chambers
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"Xp Pro Dua; Operating Sysyem" <Xp Pro Dua; Operating
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I have a small home network (3 PC's) two with XP Pro and one with

Win 98. The network works fine.

My question: Can I load 2 XP operating systems on one of the PC's.

My wife is Chinese and we have XP Pro (English) on her computer. We
have purchased XP Pro in Chinese for her also. I want to load both the
English and the Chinese version on her PC if possible.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Kelly, have you verified that BootItNG supports different language
versions of the OS? If so, I'll start recommending it over System
Commander, which I know from experience to support multiple languages.

Bruce Chambers
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Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH

 

[Alex Nichol]

"Xp Pro Dua; Operating Sysyem" <Xp Pro Dua; Operating

My question: Can I load 2 XP operating systems on one of the PC's. My wife is Chinese and we have XP Pro (English) on her computer. We have purchased XP Pro in Chinese for her also. I want to load both the English and the Chinese version on her PC if possible.

You will need to have two separate partitions, and a separate external
Boot Manager to choose which at boot. The classic tool is Partition
Magic, with its associated Boot Magic; I use BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional trial)

 

[Kenny S]

I have done this with english and greek XP. You install each one on a
different partition.
I would use partitionmagic www.powerquest.com if you dont want to format
your disk.
after you install the 2 OS's you will see a bootloader option that asks you
what OS you want to work with.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
_____________
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http://www.computerboom.net
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"Xp Pro Dua; Operating Sysyem" <Xp Pro Dua; Operating
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I have a small home network (3 PC's) two with XP Pro and one with Win 98. The network works fine.

My question: Can I load 2 XP operating systems on one of the PC's. My wife

is Chinese and we have XP Pro (English) on her computer. We have purchased
XP Pro in Chinese for her also. I want to load both the English and the
Chinese version on her PC if possible.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Tom

I have done this with english and greek XP. You install each one on a
different partition.
I would use partitionmagic www.powerquest.com if you dont want to format
your disk.
after you install the 2 OS's you will see a bootloader option that asks you
what OS you want to work with.

--

Hope this helps. Let us know.
_____________
Kenny S
http://www.computerboom.net
FREE programs and MORE!

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"Xp Pro Dua; Operating Sysyem" <Xp Pro Dua; Operating
(e-mail address removed)> wrote in message

I have a small home network (3 PC's) two with XP Pro and one with Win 98. The network works fine.

My question: Can I load 2 XP operating systems on one of the PC's. My wife

is Chinese and we have XP Pro (English) on her computer. We have purchased
XP Pro in Chinese for her also. I want to load both the English and the
Chinese version on her PC if possible.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Bruce,

I sure haven't and to tell you the truth, don't know that I ever will have a
need to, personally. )

Here is a quote from David F. (BING):

".....[Bing] It permits booting more than one Win9x from a single primary
partition ("Multi-OS"), like System Commander, but much better. The primary
user create any number of separate operating systems, users, and partition
booting configurations. " BootIt NG"'s simple graphical interface works on
an area of the computer's boot process, totally independent of operating
systems."

To the point in question:

I have just written David F. to verify the multi-language question and his
reply was short and sweet. )

Yes.

Thanks.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Kelly, have you verified that BootItNG supports different language
versions of the OS? If so, I'll start recommending it over System
Commander, which I know from experience to support multiple languages.

BING is utterly indifferent to the language of the OS, or indeed to what
OS it is. It sets up the partition table with the primary partitions in
the order it is told (this is optional but useful where you 'clone' a
copy of XP as it avoids having to adjust the partition(n) in their
boot.ini), sets the one it is told to as 'active' , and then passes the
buck to the code in the initial sector of that active partition -
exactly as if that had been set up as active manually.