Multibooting

[Richard]

What is multibooting as far as Microsoft is concerned?

I've got XP on one partition, but there's someting wrong with it, so I want
to put XP from my installation disk on another partition on my HDD, before
I finally delete the current or old O.S. installation.

Can I do that? How do I do that?

(Actually, I did install the second O.S. using Setup, and booted it up once
when I chose the second (new) O.S. Now, it cannot be made to boot up at all,
not even in safe mode.)

Seems like microsoft thinks I should install Win 98, Win NT, Win 2000,
WinXP - and that's multibooting!!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

What is multibooting as far as Microsoft is concerned?

I've got XP on one partition, but there's someting wrong with it,
so I want to put XP from my installation disk on another partition
on my HDD, before I finally delete the current or old O.S.
installation.
Can I do that? How do I do that?

(Actually, I did install the second O.S. using Setup, and booted it
up once when I chose the second (new) O.S. Now, it cannot be made
to boot up at all, not even in safe mode.)

Seems like microsoft thinks I should install Win 98, Win NT, Win
2000, WinXP - and that's multibooting!!

Because that is...
If your C:\ drive/first partition/system/boot partition is all the same
thing right now - what you want to do will work - called a parallel
install - BUT when you delete the other Windows XP - depending on how you
planned on doing that - you might have yourself some trouble.

 

[Richard]

Because that is...
If your C:\ drive/first partition/system/boot partition is all the same
thing right now - what you want to do will work - called a parallel
install - BUT when you delete the other Windows XP - depending on how you
planned on doing that - you might have yourself some trouble.

What you must be saying then, is that when you install another instance of
WinXP onto your PC on another partition, that second install relies on some
files on what was your original C:

Do you know what files then need to be kept from being erased on your
original C:?

Of course, I'm assumimg that a second install is pretty much a clean install
except for some few files.

 

[Jerry]

Google search multi-booting and you'll find a list of articles/procedures.