Re: install an XP partition on a win2k system?

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Hi,

Nope, won't work. There are way too many pointers in the registry and system
files to make that sort of migration. The only way for it to be on C: is to
be installed there to begin with.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

<dspame@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'd like to be able to boot both, till the XP is ready. When ready, I
was hoping to image the XP, empty C: of win2k, put XP on C:, and boot
XP on C: as if it were originally installed there (after tweaking
boot.ini, and the XP boot programs).



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