Re: two office versions on same machine

From: Jean-Guy Marcil (no-spam_at_leaveme.alone)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:06:57 -0500

Hi Jonathan,

I guess the easiest will be to buy a bigger/better hard disk (Which I need
anyway), install it as the master and have the current one become a slave.
Install everything as you so nicely outlined on the new master, copy the
data from the new slave (the current master) to the new master and then
reformat the "new" slave and finally copy the data back to the slave form
the master.

Am I making any sense?

Thanks again. 

--
Cheers!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
jmarcil@sympatico.ca
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
"Jonathan West" <jwest@mvps.org> a écrit dans le message de news:
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>
> "Jean-Guy Marcil" <no-spam@leaveme.alone> wrote in message
> news:e2xOumb6DHA.2996@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks Jonathan,
> >
> > Yes, I did mean PowerQuest Partition magic and Boot magic.
> >
> > I can't wait to switch the VPC, now, it is a real pain when I am working
> on
> > 2002 and a client for whom I did some work on 2000 calls... I have to
> > reboot, tell my client, "Hold on, I'll be right with you..." and chit
chat
> > will it is rebooting...
>
> I know that feeling! :-)
>
> >
> > But, do you think it will be easy to switch form PQ to VPC, or should I
> just
> > backup everything, and reformat my disk?
>
> I would recommend you proceed as follows.
>
> 1. Backup everything & reformat.
> 2. Install whichever OS & software you want for your main machine
> 3. Restore files as necessary
> 4. Install VPC
> 5. Create a virtual machine for each OS you want to use for the basis of
> testing. Put each one on a separate vitual disk.
> 6. For each OS, copy the virtual disk for each version of Office you want
to
> install.
> 7. Create a separate virtual machine for each OS/Office combination, each
> pointing to its own virtual disk, and install Office
>
>
> > Will VPC smoothly take over the
> > running of the Boot Manager from PQ?
>
> No, VPC works in a completely different way. Each virtual machine operates
> as an application under Windows on the host machine. So there is no
> rebooting when you start a new virtual machine.
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Jonathan West - Word MVP
> http://www.multilinker.com
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

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