How to setup "Dual Boot"

[Sean]

Oh guru's of XP:
How would I go about setting up a dual boot setup?
I want to leave my current XP Home setup on my C: drive
and setup another XP Home on my F: drive. The F: drive
would be just what you have to have to run XP with
networking for my game (UO). Trying to keep proccesses to
a minimum so the game runs fast.

Sean

 

[jel183 \(UK\)]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306559#3

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

If you want, u can clone ur current XP and dual boot.
That way u dont have to reinstall printer, settings,
updates, etc. Easy to delete what u dont want. I'm on
my clone XP now which I use 4 backup and
experimentation .

Requires PQboot from PMagic or similar, ~$70, but can
be used 4 other exciting tasks too
If u wanna know how in detail, I'll dig out the post.
Just let me know by posting back..

HTH - Larry

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:41:40 -0700, "Sean"

|Oh guru's of XP:
|How would I go about setting up a dual boot setup?
|I want to leave my current XP Home setup on my C: drive
|and setup another XP Home on my F: drive. The F: drive
|would be just what you have to have to run XP with
|networking for my game (UO). Trying to keep proccesses to
|a minimum so the game runs fast.
|
|Sean


Any advice given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS. Personal attacks, nitpicking & criticism
of anything but content will NOT be responded to. Those
posters should spend their time taking the test @
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/ocdtrt1.htm

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:16:39 GMT, "Larry(LJL269)"

Here it is:

I cloned XPhome & setup dual boot 2 XPs by:

Used DI6 to copy C (active primary) creating a (hidden
primary) part between C
& D. Rebooting XP u see option for 2nd XP but choosing
it has no effect.

Run PM7s PQboot(no setup, options, or other crap) &
get this screen:

PQ Boot -- Version 7.0 PowerQuest Corporation

================= Disk 1 =================
ID Volume Type Status Visible
-- ----------- ------ ---------------- ------
?1 72-0-XP MAX FAT32 Primary,Bootable Yes
2 72-1-XP MIN FAT32X Primary No

Select the OS partition you wish to boot using one of
the partition IDs above.
(? indicates OS ur currently booting )
Enter ID:

U just enter 2 & 2nd XP will boot but u have to choose
2nd XP again since the OS
selection menu comes up again when 2nd XP tries to
boot. After it does ur 1st
part is (hidden primary) and 2nd is now C (active
primary) . Reboot & u'r still
booting XP2 but u have to keep telling XP that.

U only need run PQboot when u CHANGE OS to boot.

U can avoid having to repeat to XP the OS to boot by
changing BOOT.INI so PQboot
is really controllinmg everything. This is done by
specifing that the DEFAULT OS
for part 1 is XP1 and part 2 is XP2. Set TIMEOUT=2 and
u hardly see XPs OS selections.

Be sure u know how to recover from BOOT.INI failure.
Dont know if RESTORE does the trick.

I've installed hard/software on D when XP1 was running
that XP2 knows nothing about.

I did not need to activate XP2

HTH - Larry


Any advice given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS. Personal attacks, nitpicking & criticism
of anything but content will NOT be responded to. Those
posters should spend their time taking the test @
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/ocdtrt1.htm