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can XP boot as a second disk ?
Name: anthemis_cretica Date: April 21, 2003 at 00:47:50 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: p3
Comment:
i moved my present XP from primary master to secondary (from hda to hdd). because i installed a new disk with linux at primary master.
i couldnt boot XP, although i thought i did necessary things in boot loader file (lilo.conf)
Name: pea63 Date: April 21, 2003 at 02:44:27 Pacific
Reply:
Check this out, you may find your answer http://www.theeldergeek.com/b.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: Richard59 Date: April 21, 2003 at 03:51:48 Pacific
Reply:
You cannot change the name of a system disk. When you installed XP it was on C drive. It will not run as D,E or anything but C. You will have to format and reinstal XP in it's new location. May also need a third party bootloader as I believe XP is only able to set up dualboot with another windows version.
Summary: The second link in my response #9 has a list of all RC commands, and the ren/rename command is in it, so I'm guessing it should work. The oldest message I'm tracking is from May 15th, so you've got so...
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