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Old March 10th 06, 12:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default Dual booting

Since you have Partition Magic check out that you also have Boot Magic.
BM is a boot manager and can be configured so as to present you with a
menu on boot up from which you select the operating system to be started.
If you use BM you shouldn't have to reinstall either operating system.
Alternatively you could use Microsoft's boot manager that is built in to
XP but AFAIK you would need to reinstall XP to make this operative.

In my case I now use BootItNG as my boot manager (and partition manager
and drive image application) but previously used Boot Magic to boot a
system that multi-booted between Win98SE, Win Me and XP Pro.
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Mike Maltby



Ed Mc wrote:

I have my ME os on one hard drive and another drive has XP
installed. Currently, I have to unplug one when I want to use the
other. What must I do to plug in both hard drives and have a dual
boot system. I have Partition Magic. Must I reinstall XP, or, can I just
plug it in and use Partition M. to set it up? My research, on the
Net, has throughly confused me. Hoping to get some clear info. here.
Thanks for any help.