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From: "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Daul Boot of Two WinXP. How to get "C:\WINDOWS" in both cases?
Date: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:09 AM

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:
You'll need to use a 3rd party partition and boot manager to hide each
partition from one another, so that each installation will "think" it's
on C:.

Not true, as Pegasus found out. As long as an OS was installed
without another previous installation in view (i.e. not "hidden" or
on a disconnected HD), the new installation forever after will,
when its running, know its own partition as "C:", and it will call the
other partitions - including the partition containing the OS that
calls its partition "C:" - by other letter designatins. This is true
even when using Microsoft's standard ntldr boot manager.

You can check this out easily by simply cloning an OS that calls
its own partition "C:" to another HD. Then boot that clone OS
up in isolation from the original OS's HD (e.g. by first disconnecting
the original HD). The clone will boot up as "C:". Then reconnect
the original HD. The original OS will boot up as "C:" and call the
clone's partition something like "D:" or some other letter. Then,
by adjusting the boot.ini file that the original OS uses or by changing
the BIOS's HD boot order, boot up the clone. Now the clone will
call its partition "C:" and call the original OS's partition "D:" or
some
other letter. Each OS - WHEN IT IS RUNNING - will call its own
partition "C:". This NOT to say that there are two partitions called
"C:" simultaneously by either running OS, but that each of the 2 OSes
will call its partition "C:" when it is running.

*TimDaniels*


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