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