Windows XP PRO dual boot

[Guest]

I got a new computer with Windows Media XP loaded on it. However I cannot
connect with my company office using Openvpn... I don't have any problem
with Openvpn on machines running XP Pro.

Can I load another copy of XP (Pro version) on the machine and use the dual
boot feature of XP to switch between the Pro and Media XP versions? Does it
matter if the copy of XP Pro is older than the version of Media XP (I read in
the documentation for dual boot that the older OS should be loaded first)?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I got a new computer with Windows Media XP loaded on it.
However I cannot connect with my company office using Openvpn...
I don't have any problem with Openvpn on machines running XP Pro.

Can I load another copy of XP (Pro version) on the machine and
use the dual boot feature of XP to switch between the Pro and
Media XP versions? Does it matter if the copy of XP Pro is older
than the version of Media XP (I read in the documentation for
dual boot that the older OS should be loaded first)?

What Service Packs are installed in your WinXP?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Guest]

What Service Packs are installed in your WinXP?

*TimDaniels*
Hello,

I am running sp2 on the xp pro machines that I have OpenVpn on and working.
The machine with xp media is also running sp2. When I try to run OpenVpn on
it I get a "tls" error. OpenVpn says such errors are usually a firewall
issue but there's nothing special about my firewall setup for the xp media
machine different from the setup I'm using on my other xp pro machines.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I am running sp2 on the xp pro machines that I have OpenVpn
on and working. The machine with xp media is also running sp2.
When I try to run OpenVpn on it I get a "tls" error. OpenVpn says
such errors are usually a firewall issue but there's nothing special
about my firewall setup for the xp media machine different from
the setup I'm using on my other xp pro machines.

Sorry, I don't have expertise enough to solve your OpenVpn
problem. As for dual booting XP Pro and XP Media, they're
both XP, and their ntldr boot loader is the same, so you can
dual-boot them just like 2 installations of XP. Since they'll both
be on the same hard drive and you don't plan to "hide" one
partition while installing the 2nd OS on the other partition, the
second installed OS will call its partition "D:". Otherwise, if they
were on separate hard drives, you could install one OS on one
hard drive, then replace it with the other hard drive and install
the 2nd OS, and running them both, use bootcfg to build the
boot.ini entries (or do it manually). Then you could dual-boot
between the two OS's, and each would call itself "C:" and the
other partition "D:" when it ran.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Guest]

Hello all,

I found a shareware program that handles the "dual boot" issues very quickly
and easily. Its called, "AIS Boot Menu Manager and Backup" available at:

www.aiscl.co.uk

It does the editing of the boot.ini file thru a gui.