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Bobbie Leslie
I have posted several questions in regards to dual booting and all of
them (or most of them) were very helpful and I appreciate the support
of the Newsgroup community. I have a C: drive that had WindowsME
installed and when WindowsXP came out I decided to dual boot onto a
separate hard drive, D:, until the bugs were worked out of XP (wistful
thinking?). At this point There is nothing left on the C: drive but
the BOOT.INI , NTDETECT and NTLDR, and when the machine boots up it
goes straight into WindowsXP, thanks to advice from the Newsgroup. I
have a separate computer with a new 160gig hard drive in it (nothing
on it at this stage) and I wondered why I couldn't install my version
of WindowsXP from the other machine (not registering or anything) and
since they are connected by a Cat 5 cable from the hub/router why
can't I use the Files and Settings Tansfer Wizard to move or copy all
of the files from the dual boot machine (the hard drive is about 80%
full) to the new installation across the room via the network
cable....
Make any sense anybody? I started to use Michael Stevens RepairInstall
or Charlie White's method on the dual boot XP hard drive because I've
got some fouled up partition files in there and even tho' the machine
boots and I can use it there are several cases where it is so slow
it's unreal. I tried to run Partition Magic 8.0 on it and it says that
partition files are corrupted. I also tried Acronis Disk Director and
got the same message. However, I ran SpinRite 6.0 and it didn't show
any faults at all. As most of you know we have a ton of stuff that we
don't want to lose and even tho' I've made backups I worry about the
corrupt partitions being carried over to the new hard drive.
One time when I was in trouble I stumbled onto Michael Stevens
Repair/Install and it is a gem to bring the machine back from the
dead. I later had occasions to use Charlie White's "Windows XP
Crashed? Here's Help" and it also is a gem. The question here is
should I use my WindowsXP with SP2 slipstreamed or do I have to go
back to the original installation disk and then apply SP2?
Hey gang, I know I'm asking a lot but I do need some advice here. I am
not a novice but neither am I in the class with a lot of you people
and that's the reason for coming to the Newsgroup.
Any constructive help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
them (or most of them) were very helpful and I appreciate the support
of the Newsgroup community. I have a C: drive that had WindowsME
installed and when WindowsXP came out I decided to dual boot onto a
separate hard drive, D:, until the bugs were worked out of XP (wistful
thinking?). At this point There is nothing left on the C: drive but
the BOOT.INI , NTDETECT and NTLDR, and when the machine boots up it
goes straight into WindowsXP, thanks to advice from the Newsgroup. I
have a separate computer with a new 160gig hard drive in it (nothing
on it at this stage) and I wondered why I couldn't install my version
of WindowsXP from the other machine (not registering or anything) and
since they are connected by a Cat 5 cable from the hub/router why
can't I use the Files and Settings Tansfer Wizard to move or copy all
of the files from the dual boot machine (the hard drive is about 80%
full) to the new installation across the room via the network
cable....
Make any sense anybody? I started to use Michael Stevens RepairInstall
or Charlie White's method on the dual boot XP hard drive because I've
got some fouled up partition files in there and even tho' the machine
boots and I can use it there are several cases where it is so slow
it's unreal. I tried to run Partition Magic 8.0 on it and it says that
partition files are corrupted. I also tried Acronis Disk Director and
got the same message. However, I ran SpinRite 6.0 and it didn't show
any faults at all. As most of you know we have a ton of stuff that we
don't want to lose and even tho' I've made backups I worry about the
corrupt partitions being carried over to the new hard drive.
One time when I was in trouble I stumbled onto Michael Stevens
Repair/Install and it is a gem to bring the machine back from the
dead. I later had occasions to use Charlie White's "Windows XP
Crashed? Here's Help" and it also is a gem. The question here is
should I use my WindowsXP with SP2 slipstreamed or do I have to go
back to the original installation disk and then apply SP2?
Hey gang, I know I'm asking a lot but I do need some advice here. I am
not a novice but neither am I in the class with a lot of you people
and that's the reason for coming to the Newsgroup.
Any constructive help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob