Re: The Case of the Phantom OS
From: I'm Dan (dgREMOVE-THIS1261_at_cs.com)
Date: 06/20/04
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:34:03 -0700
"Ralph Hutchinson" <a78be3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have installed four OS'es on this machine, which is a 2.6Mhz Pentium
> 4 with two Western Digital 200Gig hard discs and a WD 40Gig hard disc.
> The first hard disc is partitioned into four primary partitions (drives).
> All are formatted using the Fat32 file system. The multi-boot setup
> was created on the first hard disc using Partition Magic 8 installed in
> Win98se on the first primary partition (drive). Boot selection is
> accomplished using Boot Magic. For drive identification purposes
> each drive is named using the same name as the OS installed on it,
> as shown below. All of the XP installations have only one Identity.
>
> #1 Win98se
> #2 WinXP-1
> #3 WinXP-2
> #4 WinXP-3
>
> All of the installations boot just fine. When booted, all OS'es, with
> the exception of the one loaded, are hidden. The selected drives all
> show up in Boot Magic as being on the correct drive and partition.
>
> But here is where the mystery comes in. When booted into any of
> the first three OS'es, that drive shows up in Internet Explorer as the
> C: drive with the correct drive ID name. But when booted to the
> XP OS on the fourth drive, which should show as C: WinXP-3, it
> shows up as C: WinXP-2.
How did you install XP-3? Was it a clean install, or did you clone XP-2?
When you boot into each XP, take a look in the Disk Mgmt service and check
which partitions are identified as the system partition and/or the boot
partition. Also check which partition (on the 'Disk 1' bar graph) is
labeled 'C:'. Is there any crossover there between XP-2 and XP-3?
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