Re: Dual boot help please (Doing it right?).
- From: EtherStreams <EtherStreams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:35:01 -0700
Thanks for all the info. The back up is the O.S. with windows updates, my
video card drivers and mouse\keyboard drivers. I really hope it all works. I
am on dial-up, so it takes quite a long time to update the O.S., where as
restoring the back up takes a max 1\2 hour. Not to mention that I did have to
have the computer configured so that certain network adaptors would stop
interfering with my external sound card.
"databaseben@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
yes, if you reinstall the.
o.s. onto a different
partition,
a dual boot should be
automatically created
by windows.
is not then use the
bootcfg /rebuid to
make one.
you also asked about
restoring an archive.
restoring archives can
be tricky because the
archive must be restored
to the original location it
was taken from.
if it is simply the o.s. you
could restore the archive
to another partition than
its origianl was on.
then you simply could do
a "repair installation" with
your xp cd.
however, if the archive has
third party programs installed
onto the o.s.,
they will not function if their
original installation drive is
a different letter.
so if you restore an archive
to a different drive letter than
the one it had initially,
you would also have to re
install your third party software
again so that they registr keys
and other files are in sync
with the new drive letter.
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"EtherStreams" <EtherStreams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok. Thanks. I guess I was ill advised. My question now would be, if I do
fix
it all and re-install to drive F: , will that instance of windows be
completely independant and unaffected by anything done to the original
install? As well, could I overlay the existing backup over the drive F:
install (the backup was configured to take out anything that could
interfere
with my audio recording ex: network adaptors, etc....)???
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