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dual boot on XP?
Name: tenacious G Date: November 6, 2001 at 18:15:46 Pacific
Comment:
can i dual boot windows Xp and other OS? how can i do it if its preinstalled? i hope you can help me thanks
Name: Sterling_Aug Date: November 6, 2001 at 18:32:57 Pacific
Reply:
I am dual booting Win2K and Win XP.
If you have XP preinstalled, then it will be more difficult to add another system unless the new OS contains a boot loader which takes over from the XP boot.ini
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave Rajaratnam Date: November 6, 2001 at 23:27:59 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Tenacious, Boot the HD with a floopy using WIN98 OR ME Install win98 OR ME in a different logical drive other than XP. Once its up and running you may have to Go to RUN in XP type msconfig and alter the boot.ini file. If you know what you are doing then fine otherwise re-install win98/ME before installing XP
[boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP (LAST SENTENCE IS CONTINIOUS FROM THE PREVIOUS ONE) Professional" /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows"
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