Re: Dual Boot (follly)

Vince,

My advice was labled a "duplication of effort".

Where have you been since?

Yes, the silence is deafening.  It's been me you and Pegasus!

Did you go back and read the first response from Arec? He was on the mark and needed only include a few other bits of advice. But he'd set you on a sound path and any question beyond that would easily been answered (by Arec).

Methinks Arec can get a dualboot in, in record time.  He sure scattered!

In over a decade of installing more dual-boots than I can count, (for myself, clients and friends) I don't recall ever spending more than an afternoon, at the longest? Hell, with small drives (half a gig) I made it work with 2 OS's having to share he same partition/volume. (No, I never walked miles to return a book as did Mr. Lincoln).

Yes, your circumstances requried advance preparation - maybe an hour or two at best. Vince, this was a no-brainer!

Here we are on the tenth and your initial post was made on the 7th. I dare say had you gone to the MS site (rarely my sole choice for advice) and one or two other sites which have been dealing with this now common practice for years...Well, Vince? I'll bet you'd have been up and running that evening.

Yes, as "unnecessary" as much of my advice was (it did concern more than a strict reply to the narrow subject a hand)? Even if you you'd have done *all* I advised, line by line - - this would be over. Ignore my further advice for now? You may revisit my tips when you recover from this.

Funny thing? If you never visited this group? If you only did a Google search for "dual boot" (or Dual-boot or dualboot)?

Vince, the book was writen years ago! In fact, now most of the results refer to a Linux install.

You have to scroll down a page of results to find an MS only queston. Yeah, sometimes around the turn of the century a dual boot became "traditional". If only you would have looked at ten sites you would probably have found 95% agreement between 90% of them. In fact, some of the early "Flagship sites" are gone! They don't have anything new to offer.

I hope your new buddy lives a long time. I suspect he'll be at your beckoned call more than once in the future. Amazing how silent this group is. I sincerly doubt anyone who has installed more than a hanfull of dualboots can believe how this has turned out to be a few day project.

At which point do we use the word *fiasco*?

Has anybody here who had done this more than once spent more than a day with it? An evening?

Yeah, I haven't used a machine without a dual boot in over a dozen years. Each upgrade or any modification to a box, drive or OS was within that config. I don't know if I haven't used a third party boot manager out there. Why have I always returned to boot.ini? It isn't that I didn't 'try' and experiment with a diffeent method!

You are not dumb! But few of the questions or problems you present fall into the *complicated* catagory. Let others conclude why this has become "complicated".

If my suggestion was so *wrong", I wonder why it is largely still the boilerplate various MS suggestions and appears at most any site you would choose at random. (Execpt if you were installing a Linux OS).

Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill! Viince, sometimes "A cigar is just a cigar."

I suppose this will be fixed, if it already isn't? I hope your method guarantees it is *over*. I can give you more than a few reasons why you will revist this scene (if not this group).

I've never been so proud to be insulted! I watch you run into one unnecessary brick wall after another and fight the urge to be smug knowing not only should this be behind you but I have litle confidence you did anything but set yourself on a path which will require you to pose more than a few questions as long as you rely upon this solution.

Good Luck Vince! You have undertaken one of the simplest technical proceedures. In the face of the preponderence of evidence of "how most people" satisfy your need - you chose the fork in the road.

I'd like to see the response in this group to the queston: "How do I boil water?"

[Answer]

"Well, first you have do dig a well...."

Sez I? "Wait, he has water coming out of the tap!" (But that would be too simple!)

Yes, Pegasus is going to ignore me! (As will the legions who may fear his repudiation?)

I guess there is a new and better (but also held in confidence) way of installing a second MS OS!

.

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