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Dual Booting with Windows XP
Name: Chris Date: February 22, 2002 at 03:28:21 Pacific
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Hi There, I have 2 hard drives at the momment and want to make it so I can dual boot off either drive, I was told that Windows XP pro has this feature, and that I should install the earlier OS first, so what I did was I installed Win ME on the smaller hardrive and Win XP pro on the larger drive... Now I don't know how to dual boot it any help would be apprecaited
Name: Andy M Date: February 22, 2002 at 04:12:10 Pacific
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Which OS does it boot to and are the drives NTFS or FAT32?
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Response Number 2
Name: rjs82vette Date: February 22, 2002 at 05:07:28 Pacific
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If your bios has the option of booting from differant drives (IE.. HD0, HD1, HD2) I would recommend using that feature... the trouble with using the dual boot feature in any software or operating system is that when one OS goes bad it has the distinct pleasure of taking the other OS with it...(not always but quite often) if you use the BIOS boot feature then each OS is totally seperate...seperate MBR, seperate start up files.... so if one goes bad it.. you just format the drive and reinstall... and if you keep them all formated as Fat32 then if the XP drive goes bad you can still access it from the 89 drive and copy all you important files before you format...
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Response Number 3
Name: Master Date: February 22, 2002 at 09:12:06 Pacific
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Hello... Guess what!!! I have the answer here for you...all you have to do is boot up with WinXP and go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Tab -> and click on setting in the Startup/Recovery from here I guess you know what to do......select the oprationg system you want to run......good luck...email me if you have any questions.....peace out!!!
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Response Number 4
Name: Inquisitive Date: February 23, 2002 at 05:33:59 Pacific
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Some dual boot info at http://au.geocities.com/inquisitiveb/stuff.html if that helps
Master- Won't that make it so that it always boots linux? (That's the one I want to dual boot with win xp) because it says default operating system, and if I were to change that, then how would I get back to windows xp?
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