how to boot on old XP Home drive after adding new drive with XP Pro

[murrayatuptowngallery]

I just added a 2nd hard drive. I unplugged the original drive which
contains a bundled XP Home installation for safety's sake.

I installed the new Seagate drive and after countless experiments
somehow got the full drive capacity. I tried Drive Wizard to copy the
original partition to the new drive after all the CD/DVD burning
options I had on the old OS (Nero, RecordNow, etc) refused to recognize
the full-partition copy attempts.

I am looking for a way to be able to use the old drive applications
without reinstalling them.

I tried looking at Dynamic Drive (options described in Windows Help
File do not appear) and Dual Boot help file doesn't tell me how to do
it.

I went so far as to do what Windows recommends NOT doing..I changed the
drive number in boot.ini from 0 to 1 (the old drive).

This at least gave me a boot choice screen, for Windows or Windows XP
Pro, but choosing Windows still booted XP Pro on the new drive. I
didn't change the OS name from XP Pro becasue I didn't know what to
call the Home Edition.


Is there a more direct way to boot on the other drive?

Another thing I hoped I could get away with was to make a Dynamic drive
spanning the two volumes (C:, D: , both NTFS), then just move appls or
shortcuts to one drive. :O(


Thank you

Murray

 

[murrayatuptowngallery]

I didn't say so, but I DID reconnect the 2nd drive after getting
Windows up on the new drive.

They are on the same cable with 'cable select' jumper installed. New
drive is 0 old is 1. I can't really swap physical positions because the
drives are different thicknesses and the case is uncooperative (funky
hardware /quick-lock plastic mounting brackets. (HP/Compaq
contraption).

Thanks

Murray

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I just added a 2nd hard drive. I unplugged the original drive which
contains a bundled XP Home installation for safety's sake.

I installed the new Seagate drive and after countless experiments
somehow got the full drive capacity. I tried Drive Wizard to copy the
original partition to the new drive after all the CD/DVD burning
options I had on the old OS (Nero, RecordNow, etc) refused to recognize
the full-partition copy attempts.

I am looking for a way to be able to use the old drive applications
without reinstalling them.

Then simply disconnect the new drive and boot to the old drive.




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[DL]

You cannot, other than by booting the old drive, or by cloning the old drive
to the new, in which case it will be a single o/s - winxp home
ie if you want to use winxp pro as your boot drive you will have to install
apps to this

 

[murrayatuptowngallery]

UGH, that's what I thought.

Thanks, all.