Re: dual-boot - how to make second hard drive on XP machine a separate XP bootable OS?
- From: "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:54:55 -0700
"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
Once you've completed the cloning, don't start up the clone
right away. First disconnect the source HD....
It's OK to start up the "PARENT" OS immediately after
cloning. Just don't start up the CLONE for its first time
without removing (or hiding) the "parent" OS. Some
cloners (e.g. Casper XP) even leave the "parent" running
throughout the cloning process. One thing you may want
to do is to defrag the clone since the cloning process
carries over the fragmented state of the files as they were
in the "parent", and another is to put some marker on the
clone's Desktop to indicate visually that it is the clone
before actually running the clone. Something *I* do is to
annotate the character strings in the clone's boot.ini file
to indicate in its boot menu which partition and which HD
the menu is coming from. I commonly multi-boot 6 or
more XP versions, and each has its own multi-boot menu
so I can boot using any partition in any of my 3 HDs. In such
scenarios, it helps to always know which partition is
controlling the booting.
.
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