to all dual booting experts in here...

I'me getting rustier with age, on just about everything with Windows, and I
no longer keep a spare machine on which I can do test procedures before
doing them on friends PC's.

If a machine is configured as W98se on c: and XP professional on d:
.....and I wanted to install XP pro (again) as a third platform on e:
will the native XP Pro dual boot manager configure boot.ini automatically
to give the third platform (or 2nd W2k installation on a 3rd drive, if u c
wot i mean:-), option on the dual boot-up dos screen?

The idea is to prepare a new XP pro installation over a period of several
days before getting rid of the old one which is playing up because I had to
run sfc /scannow , which probably knocked out SP1a - possibly reverting the
system back to older critical Windows system files, (god knows what sfc
actually did), and which is possibly responsible for several applications
now misbehaving.

regards, Richard

You'd be best off posting this to an XP newsgroup to be honest....

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!


"RJK" wrote in message
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I'me getting rustier with age, on just about everything with Windows, and
I
no longer keep a spare machine on which I can do test procedures before
doing them on friends PC's.

If a machine is configured as W98se on c: and XP professional on d:
....and I wanted to install XP pro (again) as a third platform on e:
will the native XP Pro dual boot manager configure boot.ini automatically
to give the third platform (or 2nd W2k installation on a 3rd drive, if u c
wot i mean:-), option on the dual boot-up dos screen?

The idea is to prepare a new XP pro installation over a period of several
days before getting rid of the old one which is playing up because I had
to
run sfc /scannow , which probably knocked out SP1a - possibly reverting
the
system back to older critical Windows system files, (god knows what sfc
actually did), and which is possibly responsible for several applications
now misbehaving.

regards, Richard

"RJK" wrote:
| I'me getting rustier with age, on just about everything with Windows, and
I
| no longer keep a spare machine on which I can do test procedures before
| doing them on friends PC's.
|
| If a machine is configured as W98se on c: and XP professional on d:
| ....and I wanted to install XP pro (again) as a third platform on e:
| will the native XP Pro dual boot manager configure boot.ini automatically
| to give the third platform (or 2nd W2k installation on a 3rd drive, if u c
| wot i mean:-), option on the dual boot-up dos screen?
* Yes

| The idea is to prepare a new XP pro installation over a period of several
| days before getting rid of the old one which is playing up because I had
to
| run sfc /scannow , which probably knocked out SP1a - possibly reverting
the
| system back to older critical Windows system files,
* Doesn't happen that way. It uses files from the \servicepackfiles dir

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

I threw it at the W2k-general NG as well :-)

regards, Richard


"Steven Burn" wrote in message
...
You'd be best off posting this to an XP newsgroup to be honest....

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!


"RJK" wrote in message
...
I'me getting rustier with age, on just about everything with Windows,
and
I
no longer keep a spare machine on which I can do test procedures before
doing them on friends PC's.

If a machine is configured as W98se on c: and XP professional on d:
....and I wanted to install XP pro (again) as a third platform on e:
will the native XP Pro dual boot manager configure boot.ini
automatically
to give the third platform (or 2nd W2k installation on a 3rd drive, if u
c
wot i mean:-), option on the dual boot-up dos screen?

The idea is to prepare a new XP pro installation over a period of
several
days before getting rid of the old one which is playing up because I had
to
run sfc /scannow , which probably knocked out SP1a - possibly reverting
the
system back to older critical Windows system files, (god knows what sfc
actually did), and which is possibly responsible for several
applications
now misbehaving.

regards, Richard

Do yourself a favor and get a genuine boot manager.
"RJK" wrote in message
...
I'me getting rustier with age, on just about everything with Windows, and
I
no longer keep a spare machine on which I can do test procedures before
doing them on friends PC's.

If a machine is configured as W98se on c: and XP professional on d:
....and I wanted to install XP pro (again) as a third platform on e:
will the native XP Pro dual boot manager configure boot.ini automatically
to give the third platform (or 2nd W2k installation on a 3rd drive, if u c
wot i mean:-), option on the dual boot-up dos screen?

The idea is to prepare a new XP pro installation over a period of several
days before getting rid of the old one which is playing up because I had
to
run sfc /scannow , which probably knocked out SP1a - possibly reverting
the
system back to older critical Windows system files, (god knows what sfc
actually did), and which is possibly responsible for several applications
now misbehaving.

regards, Richard