Re: Boot-up options

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Hi all,

I've got two hard drives on my system, one running XP Home and the
other
running XP Pro, on two different user accounts. My problem is that on
start
up I'm not given the option on which to boot up from. I have to go
into
the
BIOS each time and change the disc boot-up preference there and then
re-start which is a real pain.

What I would ideally like to do is to have a short-cut on my desktop
on
each
OS which would enable me to shutdown and re-start booting up in the
other.
Is this a possibility??

Hoping I've made sense!!!

Clive Holden (Kent UK)



It appears that you installed your two versions of Windows
each on its own disk, each having a system drive letter C:.
This drive letter must be maintained. You now have two
options:
- Continue switching disks in the BIOS, or
- Install a proper boot manager, e.g. XOSL.

Some boot managers such as XOSL need either a FAT
partition or a small dedicated partition to run. Others will
operate without a dedicated partition.



Thanks for your quick response Pegasus. Actually the two drives have
different letters C & I. I'll try a boot manager, as you suggest, and
see if that helps.

Thanks again

Clive



The drive letters are assigned by Windows.
C is the boot partition.
When you boot Home, it is on C.
When you boot Pro, it is on C.
--
Ron Sommer


Err - no - they are definitely C & I!!

Clive

Then you should be able to alter boot.ini to dual boot.
Start, Run, msconfig, Check all boot paths.
Or manually add the second OS to boot.ini.
Start, Run, edit C:\boot.ini
--
Ron Sommer

Thanks Ron, I'll give it a go

Clive



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