Problems of installation of two xp systems (URGENT)

[wo918]

Hi all,

I have Windows XP Home installed on the drive C of my 80GB harddisk of
my laptop, and drive D is my data drive. I would like to install
another windows XP Pro (English version) and make my laptop
dualbootable. First, I installed PartitionMagic 7.0 on C, and made a
new partition of about 17GB for XP Pro. Because there is no flopy
drive on my laptop, I didn't creat PartitionMagic rescue disks. After
partly installation of XP Pro, I had to reboot my laptop, but due to a
problem of PM7.0, the laptop was not bootable. I changed the bios of
my laptop, and let the laptop boot from cd-rom first. I reinstalled XP
Pro on the new partition successfully. However, I couldn't get access
to the XP Home system anymore. I used XP Pro cd Recovery Console, and
I could see that there are two windows XP folders on my harddisk, one
is under C:\windows, this should be the XP Pro; and the other is under
G:\windows, this should be the XP Home. However when I chose G:
\windows, I was asked to input administrator's password. But I really
don't have any password for my XP Home system.

Any idea on how to make my laptop dualbootable with two XP systems? I
plan to install bootmagic, is this helpful? and another problem with
bootmagic is that only rescue diskkets can be created, but I didn't
have flopy drive, is there a way to create a rescue cd?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Guest]

Why do you want to dual boot two versions of Windows XP ??

GS

 

[wo918]

Why do you want to dual boot two versions of Windows XP ??

GS








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Because the Home version is German version, and I need an English
version XP.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

See below,.

Hi all,

I have Windows XP Home installed on the drive C of my 80GB harddisk of
my laptop, and drive D is my data drive. I would like to install
another windows XP Pro (English version) and make my laptop
dualbootable. First, I installed PartitionMagic 7.0 on C, and made a
new partition of about 17GB for XP Pro. Because there is no flopy
drive on my laptop, I didn't creat PartitionMagic rescue disks.

I use a different partition manager, not PQMagic. It gives me the
option of creating a rescue CD. I would have thaought that PQMagic
has a similar option.

After
partly installation of XP Pro, I had to reboot my laptop, but due to a
problem of PM7.0, the laptop was not bootable. I changed the bios of
my laptop, and let the laptop boot from cd-rom first. I reinstalled XP
Pro on the new partition successfully. However, I couldn't get access
to the XP Home system anymore. I used XP Pro cd Recovery Console, and
I could see that there are two windows XP folders on my harddisk, one
is under C:\windows, this should be the XP Pro; and the other is under
G:\windows, this should be the XP Home. However when I chose G:
\windows, I was asked to input administrator's password. But I really
don't have any password for my XP Home system.

Then it's about time you set one. Reboot in Safe Mode, log
on as Administrator, then set a proper password and make
a note of it.

Any idea on how to make my laptop dualbootable with two XP systems? I
plan to install bootmagic, is this helpful? and another problem with
bootmagic is that only rescue diskkets can be created, but I didn't
have flopy drive, is there a way to create a rescue cd?

This is a question for the PQ FAQs.

Thanks a lot!

Here are a couple of ways to install a multi-booting system.

a) Use the native Windows boot manager. This is simple but
it has a big drawback: Both partitions are visible to both OSs.
They should be hidden from each other. Have a look at the
post "Lost boot menu", posted here shortly after after your
own post.

b) Use a proper boot manager such as PQMagic. Check
their FAQs for details on how exactly to do it.