Two OS's

[Guest]

Is it possible to have two operating systems on your hard drive and have them
share your programs and data. If so, please explain.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is it possible to have two operating systems on your hard drive and have them
share your programs and data. If so, please explain.

- What OSs were you thinking of?
- What is your current disk partitioning scheme?
- Do you have access to any partition managemen
tools, e.g. PartitionMagic?

 

[Guest]

You Can with the following
1. reduce the space needed to install programs when you install the program
through the multiple OSs into the same folder
2. If it is local pc (Not a network one) and the Drive file system is not
NTFS you can share the same "My Documents" folder within the two OSs by
choosing "Move" from the properties panel of the My Documents Icon on the
Desktop.
Any Way there is a lot of Ideas about that like sharing the same mail PST

Rami
Damascus - Syria

 

[Guest]

You Can with the following
1. reduce the space needed to install programs when you install the program
through the multiple OSs into the same folder
2. If it is local pc (Not a network one) and the Drive file system is not
NTFS you can share the same "My Documents" folder within the two OSs by
choosing "Move" from the properties panel of the My Documents Icon on the
Desktop.
Any Way there is a lot of Ideas about that like sharing the same mail PST

Rami
Damascus - Syria

 

[Guest]

I'd like to put WinXP and Win2000. I have partition commander software.
Right now, my partition scheme is:
primary partition 0(C) WinXP
Primary partition 1(D) Wiin2000
Primary partition 2(E) Applications
Primary partition 3(F) Data

with this configuration I have to install all my programs twice. I would
like to install them once, on the applications partition, and have both
operating systems share them. Please help

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Each application makes numerous entries into the registry. It must
therefore be installed separately for each operating system.

 

[Michael Stevens]

Is it possible to have two operating systems on your hard drive and
have them share your programs and data. If so, please explain.

Yes you can, but it depends on the configuration of your system and the
partitioning software you currently have or don't have.
If you are starting from scratch, you should install the oldest OS first,
followed by the next oldest, etc.
You want to make sure each OS is installed either to it's own hard drive, or
hard drive partition.
Never install two OS on the same partition unless it is a temporary install
for data retrieval purposes. If booting to both FAT and NTFS, make sure the
initial boot drive is FAT and the FAT OS is the first one installed.
Order would be:
FAT
FAT16
FAT32
NTFS:
If 2000 and XP are to be dual booted, install 2000 first then XP. You can do
it reversed, but the results are better installing older to newer.
When creating multi boot systems, take the extra time to create slipstreamed
CD's with the latest Service Packs included on each OS CD. This will make
the initial installs go much better and will include the latest security
updates.
Look on Michael Stevens Tech soon for multi-booting Windows with SP's.
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[Ron Martell]

I'd like to put WinXP and Win2000. I have partition commander software.
Right now, my partition scheme is:
primary partition 0(C) WinXP
Primary partition 1(D) Wiin2000
Primary partition 2(E) Applications
Primary partition 3(F) Data

with this configuration I have to install all my programs twice. I would
like to install them once, on the applications partition, and have both
operating systems share them. Please help

With that configuration (which is similar to mine) you can have one
set of the application program files on the Applications partition but
you must install it twice, once for each operating system, in order to
create the necessary registry entries etc. for the application. These
cannot be migrated from operating system to operating system.

I have my computer configured a bit differently from yours:
1. I use a 3rd party boot manager program. (Boot Magic)
2. I have 3 versions of Windows installed, each on its own primary
partition
3. I have the Boot Manager configured so that the two non-booting
operating system partitions are always hidden.

This means that whichever version of Windows I boot the operating
system partition is always C: which makes life a bit simpler. It also
precludes the possibility of one operating system getting accidently
corrupted with files from another version of Windows.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Timothy Daniels]

With that configuration (which is similar to mine)
you can have one set of the application program
files on the Applications partition but you must
install it twice, once for each operating system,
in order to create the necessary registry entries etc.
for the application. These cannot be migrated
from operating system to operating system.

I have my computer configured a bit differently
from yours:
1. I use a 3rd party boot manager program.
(Boot Magic)
2. I have 3 versions of Windows installed, each
on its own primary partition
3. I have the Boot Manager configured so that
the two non-booting operating system partitions
are always hidden.

This means that whichever version of Windows
I boot the operating system partition is always C:
which makes life a bit simpler. It also precludes
the possibility of one operating system getting
accidently corrupted with files from another
version of Windows.

I usually have half a dozen versions of WinXP Pro
on three hard drives in my machine. Using the
standard WinXP boot manager, I can choose
among any of them to boot, and the one that boots
is always given the root name "C:". In addition, I
have the entire file structures of all the other OSes
to/from which to drag-'n-drop individual files. It
makes it convenient to drop back to an earlier
version of the OS or to retrieve a single file from
an earlier version if that's all that I need.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Kyuso Cahi]

I'd like to put WinXP and Win2000. I have partition commander software.
Right now, my partition scheme is:
primary partition 0(C) WinXP
Primary partition 1(D) Wiin2000
Primary partition 2(E) Applications
Primary partition 3(F) Data

with this configuration I have to install all my programs twice. I would
like to install them once, on the applications partition, and have both
operating systems share them. Please help

I used to try that with WinXP and Win98. Most of the 'nice' softwares didn't
need re-installing, but many others had problems if not installed
separately for each OS. I eventually ended up installing separate copies
for each OS.

It's really not worth it. Just stick with one OS, or have separate copies of
applications, and only share the user data.

I now share user data and application data with XP/98 and linux, but never
between windows versions.