Re: xp pro + 2003 server dual boot question

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From: Timothy Daniels (TDaniels_at_NoSpamDot.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:41:32 -0700

"Pegasus (MVP)" replied:
>
> "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
>> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>> > Here is the recipe to install Win2003:
>> > 1. Partition your disk.
>> > 2. Label each partition so that you can recognise
>> > it later on.
>> > 3. Hide the WinXP partition, make the Win2003
>> > partition visible.
>> > 4. Install Win2003 in its partition.
>> > 5. Install XOSL in the XOSL partition.
>> > 6. Add the two OSs to the XOSL menu.
>> > 7. Hide the Win2003 partition from WinXP, and
>> > the WinXP partition from Win2003.
>> > This is important!
>> >
>> > And here is how to boot up without XOSL:
>> > 1. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk
>> > (www.bootdisk.com).
>> > 2. Restore the MBR (fdisk /mbr)
>> > 3. Hide the WinXP partition (for example), unhide
>> > the Win2003 partition.
>> > 4. Make the Win2003 partition visible.
>>
>>
>> How does one "hide" and "make visible" a partition?
>
>
> a) While running under XOSL: Use the inbuilt menu options to
> hide or unhide a given partition.
> b) Outside XOSL: Use a third-party product, e.g. PartitionMagic
> (costs money!), or ptedit (free).

    How does one run Partition Magic or ptEdit outside either OS
and outside XOSL? IOW, outside XOSL, how does one use
Partition Magic to "hide" the partition which it is in to then install
Windows 2003 Server in the other partition? It seems like "hiding"
the partition it's in would prevent even its shutting down properly.

*TimDaniels*

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