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XP/2000 Dual Boot
Name: d-lightful Date: March 28, 2002 at 20:32:49 Pacific
Comment:
Does anyone know of a way to get XP and Win2000 to dual boot with System Commander 7? Both partitions are NTFS but SysCom7 wants to use the same boot loader for both which results in me ending up back at that stupid Windows boot menu. How do you make 2 boot.ini files and edit SysCom7 to use each one for each different O/S? I've been trying to crack this one for awhile.....
Name: Crazzy Date: March 29, 2002 at 02:01:06 Pacific
Reply:
NTFS IS ONLY SUPPORTED BY WIN XP SO YOU WONT GET MIN ME TO RUN ON THE SYSTEM FORMAT THE HDD IN TO FAT AND U WONT GET NO PROBS :-)
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Response Number 2
Name: Sigh Date: March 29, 2002 at 05:25:27 Pacific
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Crazzy
Stop shouting and try to answer the actual question.
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Response Number 3
Name: Lawrence Date: March 29, 2002 at 11:42:44 Pacific
Reply:
Hmm... I have Windows 2000 on my system first and after I install Windows XP on a second drive, it gives me a manual to which OS I want to boot when I turn on the computer! It doesn't require system commander 7 or anything like that at all... Windows XP can handle multi-booting!
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