Re: More Dual Boot Questions Using XP
- From: "Colinlam" <colinlam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:23:35 +0100
Hi, I have setup a dual boot system using the free version of XXCopy, which
you can find at http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm , it was recommend by
someone on this forum and I'm really pleased with it. It gives you a
bootable clone on any partition you want.
There is an option to boot the clone using a floppy but I edited my boot.ini
and now get the choice at bootup.
Every so often I reformat the partition and redo the clone to keep it up to
date.
"Rich" <Rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have been trying the methods suggested here to setup a dual boot pc with
windows XP---but I am running into problems that have not been discussed
here.
I took the advice of using CasperXP to copy the contents of my current C:
drive windows XP MCE 2005 installation onto another physical drive,
allowing
Casper XP to create a partition from the unallocated space on the second
physical drive.
The copy/transfer process seemed to go well---at which point I rebooted
the
pc and entered the system BIOS. I changed the boot order of the drives to
have the second drive with the copy of the windows iXP MCE 2005
nstallation
just created boot first. I disable the drive with the original wndows
installtion from booting within BIOS as I have seen the comment that upon
the
first boot of the copied windows installation, you do not want the
original
installation to be active or seen by the copied system.
When I reboot out of BIOS, I get an error that there is a problem with
hal.dll and that the file needs to be replaced. I inserted the Windows XP
CD
into the optical drive and rebooted to get to the MS recovery
console---which
I can do. But recovery console does not ask me to pick a windows
installation
to repair, it simply goes directly to msdos prompt C:\
If I try bootcfg /rebuild, I receive an error message that there is
something wrong with the partition and to try chkdsk to repair the
problem.
When I try chkdsk, the response I get back is that there appears to be one
or more unrecoverable errors on the drive.
I also tried the the whole process over from the beginning but when I got
to
the BIOS part, instead of disabling the drive with the original windows
installation on it from booting at all, I pulled the power plug on the
drive
with the original windows installation so that the drive with the copied
windows installation would not even see the drive with the original
installation. But I received the same bootcfg and chkdsk errors as noted
above.
Did I miss something in the various discussions here on setting up a dual
boot system via cloning an existing windows XP installation onto another
physical drive..?
Thanks..
.
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