Swapping between Windows 2000 and 2003 server installations

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From: Boris Zakharin (bzakharin_at_primeassociates.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:08:50 -0400

Our company has a test environment set up where we can swap the contents of
an entire bootable partition minus the root directory to a dedicated swap
partition, which itself is bootable (so that we can boot into the Swap
partition and do the swap while the system files are not in use). This way,
we can have various Windows 2000 server configurations to swap between to
test different applications. Anyway, we now need to begin testing our
applications on a Windows server 2003 system while still being able to test
on a Windows 200 one. I was just wondering, would it be possible to swap
back and forth between 2000 and 2003 partitions?

Thanks in advance,
Boris Zakharin

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