How to move XP to D drive from C?

[Nick D.]

Okay, this is a weird one.

I had been using my laptop for music and after months and months of
endless tweaking finally had it working perfectly. Unfortunately, I
couldn't use it for anything else without seriously risking breaking the
pro audio programs (which are extremely fragile).

But I needed laptop for other things temporarily. So I made ghost copy
of hard disk and did a clean install of XP and more standard programs,
like office, email, wireless, etc. Now this set up works perfectly for
that.

I'd now like to move this setup and all its programs to an external USB
D drive and then restore the C drive to the previous audio setup. THEN
I'd like to somehow create a dual boot so that I can run either the
current standard XP from the D drive or the pro audio set up from the C
drive.

Is this possible?

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

Okay, this is a weird one.

I had been using my laptop for music and after months and months of
endless tweaking finally had it working perfectly. Unfortunately, I
couldn't use it for anything else without seriously risking breaking the
pro audio programs (which are extremely fragile).

But I needed laptop for other things temporarily. So I made ghost copy
of hard disk and did a clean install of XP and more standard programs,
like office, email, wireless, etc. Now this set up works perfectly for
that.

I'd now like to move this setup and all its programs to an external USB
D drive and then restore the C drive to the previous audio setup. THEN
I'd like to somehow create a dual boot so that I can run either the
current standard XP from the D drive or the pro audio set up from the C
drive.

Is this possible?

First off does your laptop support booting from an external drive?

If not then you may be able to partition your HDD into two separate
partitions and install XP to each, the other alternative would be to
get Virtual PC and use that.

 

[Nick D.]

First off does your laptop support booting from an external drive?

Thank you for responding. I believe it does but will test to make sure.

If not then you may be able to partition your HDD into two separate
partitions and install XP to each, the other alternative would be to
get Virtual PC and use that.

My concern about that is that almost *anything* I do to the audio
configuration breaks the Giga sampler. I'd hesitate to try Virtual PC.

Also, I'd like to avoid complete reinstallation of everything.