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Dual Booting 2 copies of XP Pro, possible?

post #1 of 4
8/20/08 at 12:24am
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Okay,you are probably wondering why I would want to do this. I want a copy of windows that is not cluttered with stuff so I can run some games. My laptop is a HP NW800 mobile workstation with a primary 160GB HDD and a Multibay 160GB HDD. I am just about to upgrade the Centrino processor to 2.1Ghz. My thought was to install 1 copy of WinXP on each drive. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.

Stephen
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post #2 of 4
8/20/08 at 1:09am
good question... i wonder if anyone here has tried this....
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post #3 of 4
8/20/08 at 11:40am
yeah, it would work just fine, you would use multiple entries in BOOT.INI (installing the 2nd copy should take care of updating BOOT.INI for you)
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post #4 of 4
8/20/08 at 9:07pm
What he said

If it doesn't dual-boot on it's own:

Open up the boot.ini

Do something like this (changing the partition numbers based off trial-and-error):

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 1" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 2" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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