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creating bootable partition?
Name: Danty Date: April 18, 2005 at 10:05:05 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: p4
Comment:
Hi there, I would like to create a bootable partition on my harddisk: the bootable partition would contain Windows XP Pro CD. So that if I ever want to reinstall windows, I won't have to insert the CD..and I would just boot from that partition.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: April 18, 2005 at 10:16:09 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, but
If the working installation gets messed up to the point of being unusable and you lose the boot manager, the partition with uninstalled XP may not be accessible.
A better plan would be to create a FAT partition to hold the ununstalled XP files.
If the worst happens, boot on a floppy and install.
HTH
M2
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Response Number 2
Name: fitzov Date: April 18, 2005 at 16:27:05 Pacific
Reply:
since you'd have two boot images, you'd have to set it up as a dual-boot system. make a partition just large enough to hold the cd contents and boot record, and use a third-party boot manager. I would simply boot from the cd.
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