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Hello,
I used to have a Dell system which I had setup as a dual-boot win98se (for the kids)and 2000 (for me). Worked great for many years.
I now have bought a new hp pavilion. It comes pre-installed with xp home and a recovery partition (d). It also allows creation of a recovery dvd.
I would like to continue to work in dual, separated environments for the kids and myself, by installing a second copy of xp on a separate partition, and selecting at boot time which one to activate. However, the HP xp recovery software does not allow me to select on which partition to install.
How do I manage to setup, and recover, a dual xp sytem ? Do I require a third-party boot manager ? If so, which one would you recommend ? Should I trash the HP setup and work from standard XP installation CDs (assuming these would work wiht my product key)?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Victor
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I used to have a Dell system which I had setup as a dual-boot win98se (for the kids)and 2000 (for me). Worked great for many years.
I now have bought a new hp pavilion. It comes pre-installed with xp home and a recovery partition (d). It also allows creation of a recovery dvd.
I would like to continue to work in dual, separated environments for the kids and myself, by installing a second copy of xp on a separate partition, and selecting at boot time which one to activate. However, the HP xp recovery software does not allow me to select on which partition to install.
How do I manage to setup, and recover, a dual xp sytem ? Do I require a third-party boot manager ? If so, which one would you recommend ? Should I trash the HP setup and work from standard XP installation CDs (assuming these would work wiht my product key)?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Victor
(e-mail address removed)