Re: Can i make it dual boot

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"Andy" <1@xxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:40:16 +1000, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
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"Andy" <1@xxx> wrote in message
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On 24 Apr 2006 06:20:06 -0700, "Naren" <narengone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Presantly i am working on winxp having only c: drive.Now i am going
to add another harddisk which is already contain O/S win2000 with
C,D,E
drives.I am going to use winxp so if i add win2000 path on my winxp
boot.ini, can win2000 works.

Can anybady help in this regard.

Thnks in advance..

Cheers,
Naren.
First connect the Windows 2000 drive alone to see if it boots. If it
does, connect it as slave to the Windows XP drive. In boot.ini. the
second disk is rdisk(1).

Your recipe is likely to make the XP drive letter D:. What about
the countless references to drive letter C: that WinXP has from
its original installation?

Why would it be D? The XP drive is still master, and the Windows 2000
would be the slave.. In any case that's not how things work. Once
Windows has been installed, changing the physical positions of the
drives do not affect how letters are assigned to the partitions that
existed at the time of the Windows installation. That information is
contained in the registry. So in this situation when Windows 2000 is
first booted as a slave to the Windows XP drive, it sees its
partitions as C, D, and E, and the new XP partition would be given the
next unused letter.

I have seen some systems where things happened the way
you say. I have seen even more systems where the drive
letters were incorrect. Perhaps the OP will let us know how
he fared.


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