to all dual booting experts in here...

[RJK]

I'me getting rustier with age, on just about everything with Windows, and I
no longer keep a spare machine on which I can do test procedures before
doing them on friends PC's.

If a machine is configured as W98se on c: and XP professional on d:
.....and I wanted to install XP pro (again) as a third platform on e:
will the native XP Pro dual boot manager configure boot.ini automatically
to give the third platform (or 2nd W2k installation on a 3rd drive, if u c
wot i mean, option on the dual boot-up dos screen?

The idea is to prepare a new XP pro installation over a period of several
days before getting rid of the old one which is playing up because I had to
run sfc /scannow , which probably knocked out SP1a - possibly reverting the
system back to older critical Windows system files, (god knows what sfc
actually did), and which is possibly responsible for several applications
now misbehaving.

regards, Richard

 

[Dave Patrick]

:
| I'me getting rustier with age, on just about everything with Windows, and
I
| no longer keep a spare machine on which I can do test procedures before
| doing them on friends PC's.
|
| If a machine is configured as W98se on c: and XP professional on d:
| ....and I wanted to install XP pro (again) as a third platform on e:
| will the native XP Pro dual boot manager configure boot.ini automatically
| to give the third platform (or 2nd W2k installation on a 3rd drive, if u c
| wot i mean, option on the dual boot-up dos screen?
* Yes

| The idea is to prepare a new XP pro installation over a period of several
| days before getting rid of the old one which is playing up because I had
to
| run sfc /scannow , which probably knocked out SP1a - possibly reverting
the
| system back to older critical Windows system files,
* Doesn't happen that way. It uses files from the \servicepackfiles dir

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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[scott]

I'm not an eecpert but I think that I can answer this.
Yes, the boot.ini file will update itself. Keep in mind
that you have to install os's in the order that they were
released. ie: Windows 98se and then Windows 2000. It
will not boot if you load the older os after the newer
os. Hope that I helped.

 

[Lil' Dave]

Do yourself a favor and get a genuine boot manager.

 

[Guest]

I use what used to be PowerQuest (now Symantec) PARTITIO
MAGIC to create 3 Primary partitions and 1 extended
partition. I install an op/sys one by one in each of the
PRIMARY partitions eg P1=Win98 P2=Win2K and P3 = Win XP,
or Linux or watevah. Then use their PQBOOT program to
choose which of the three Op Sys I want to boot to and
system start, and their win32 PQBOOT (use their icon) on
the desktop.