Dualboot two different XP Home versions

[Guest]

My new PC came with XP home pre-installed with language versions German,
French, and Italian. I wanted to upgrade to an English language version but
Windows Setup didn't let me do that (the purchased XP Home English ver. was
older than the pre-installed OEM version). What worked was to install the
new version in addition and have both versions available on the same volume
(no separate partition necessary) as multi-boot. That worked pretty well
with a few exceptions which I don't know how to resolve and maybe somebody
knows how to:
1. When I boot with the new English version I don't have any sound. It
doesn't seem to recognize the audio controller and sound card. I have
downloaded the latest audio drivers, same result. It works perfectly under
the original XP home OEM version. Anything I need to do in addition to get
the audio drivers work under both XP versions?
2. During Shut-Down, the OEM XP version gives me the choice of Standbye.
The XP Home English doesn't. How come and can I change that?
3. I installed MS Office SBE on the original OEM XP Home, no problem. When
I did the same under XP Home Engl, all applications installed ok with the
exception of Outlook, where it asks for some .DLL driver file which it
doesn't find and aborts. I've tried to re-install, but with the same result.
Anybody any idea how to resolve this?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My new PC came with XP home pre-installed with language versions German,
French, and Italian. I wanted to upgrade to an English language version but
Windows Setup didn't let me do that (the purchased XP Home English ver. was
older than the pre-installed OEM version). What worked was to install the
new version in addition and have both versions available on the same volume
(no separate partition necessary) as multi-boot. That worked pretty well
with a few exceptions which I don't know how to resolve and maybe somebody
knows how to:
1. When I boot with the new English version I don't have any sound. It
doesn't seem to recognize the audio controller and sound card. I have
downloaded the latest audio drivers, same result. It works perfectly under
the original XP home OEM version. Anything I need to do in addition to get
the audio drivers work under both XP versions?
2. During Shut-Down, the OEM XP version gives me the choice of Standbye.
The XP Home English doesn't. How come and can I change that?
3. I installed MS Office SBE on the original OEM XP Home, no problem. When
I did the same under XP Home Engl, all applications installed ok with the
exception of Outlook, where it asks for some .DLL driver file which it
doesn't find and aborts. I've tried to re-install, but with the same result.
Anybody any idea how to resolve this?

I'm guessing here but I suspect that you installed both versions on
the same drive. This is a strict no-no - the two versions must be on
different drives. If you want something really professional and totally
modular then you should use a third party boot loader such as XOSL
(free!) in order to achieve total separation of OSs.