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Want to dual boot - XP already installed
Adam Leinss alei...@toughguy.net microsoft public cert exam mcse "Chris Monks" <theinfamousch...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in news:09aa01c397ca$f6e18a70$a501280a@phx.gbl: HELP I am a pc servicing student and been set a task to explain what windows XP uses instead of config.sys io.sys and autoexec.bat to boot and I

moving xp to a larger disk with partition magic
The boot log is useful in determining the exact cause of system startup problems. Also the previous link i posted has a tool (not really for end users). From that same doc. Windows XP Fast Boot/Fast Resume Tools Windows XP has the ability to trace boot and resume metrics and dump the resulting information to a

Can XP boot into command line from harddisk?
A few reasons: If using the XP boot manager, all boot records (Win98 and XP) will be on C: There will be no boot records on the E: drive" So can the boot be on E:? Basically, you need to read up on the XP boot manager and third party boot managers a bit and make your decisions for how you're going to install

SATA Win XP boot conflict
Tim Prince timothypri...@sbcglobal.net linux redhat install Richard Schulman wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:27:03 +0000, Lester Burnham wrote: Yes Richard, I would love to have the details [of how to set up a Windows NT/2K/XP and Linux dual boot, while leaving the NT/2K/XP boot loader untouched in the MBR],

Bootmagic 8, XP on second HD. Possible???
I have tried reloading and reformatting the XP drive multiple times when it is set as the master but it simply does not see my ME/slave drive and modifying the XP boot.ini is getting me nowhere. Also, I have read all the Microsoft links I can find - they all say the same thing: load ME/95/98 first, then load XP.

Anyone know what XP is doing during boot?
I can set this up no problem by installing 2000 first and then XP. The XP boot menu recognizes 2000 and I can select either at boot time. Question 1: When I run 2000, the OS drive is C: but under XP, it has changed to E: - I wouldn't think this would be a problem, but could it be? Is there a way to see only C: as

Short 'n Sweet Q on XP/XP dual-boot:
I re-installed XP Home after putting a new motherboard in my system. I was having trouble getting the dual-boot to work (98SE is in another partition), so I tried to use the Win 98 boot disk to set the XP partition to active. I must have exited fdisk before it was complete or something, because now I can't boot XP

GRUB optimal dual xp boot setup
(7) Before booting out of the XP RC1 partition, copy the ntldr file from the folder into C:\ (your root directory). It will ask if you want to replace the existing copy of ntldr. You click yes. (8) Now reboot. You will be able to access both the 2000 and the XP partitions with no trouble, although XP will boot a

Suse, PCLinuxOS with Windows XP Boot Issues
Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system's boot or resume performance. The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP.

Easier way to boot ZipSlack in XP
Allow the computer to boot into Win98/Me. Repairing the Windows® XP Boot Loader 1) Create a Win98/Me Startup Disk 2) Create a Notepad file with the EXE from the I386 folder of your XP CD. 6) Insert your XP CD and boot from it. 7) You'll see some files being copied, then you'll be presented with a choice of

Dual boot Win XP / Linux, using grub
What Kelly is getting at here, is: XP will not install to and boot directly from any hard drive, other than the Primary master, without some work. Are you choosing a Custom install, then telling it to install to a new partition? Or are you hiding the partitions on the Primary master and installling to the second

Slightly OT - How to boot an XP system on different PCs
I want to know this so I can next look at how XP uses files to boot up in the Win98/ME partition and then runs from another partition. This is because I would like to move my partitions around and use a boot manager - so I need to know the details of the XP boot process. Can anyone point me to any good documents,

XP Dual Boot Count Down
Z Man z...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware I'm running a dual boot ME/XP system. I previously had four hard drives, as follows: C - IDE drive, ME boot drive, 60GB D - SCSI drive, 9GB E - SCSI drive, 9GB F - IDE drive, XP boot drive, 22GB Everything worked just fine. I just added a Western Digital

Help me if you can! I can't boot into XP
If you are not planning on using the XP boot Menu, make sure you have a another one installed, eg the one in BootItNG or BootMagic (that comes with PartitionMagic). Be sure to create a rescue disk to enable the boot menu. If I do a dual-boot thing, I'll probably use the XP boot-menu. 4.

Windows XP boot disks
If this is your problem, and you don't want to go with separate boot (FAT32) and system (NTFS) partitions on the XP side, you could switch to NTLDR as the primary boot loader, with a copy of the grub /boot image in a Windows file to be started off the XP boot menu. -- Tim Prince.

Unable to boot Win98 after XP
I have a client which had a working XP boot on C. He installed windows 2000 on D: and now XP will not boot - it causes a blue screen of death. I have seen this on other computers also. TIA Ben It replaced the the XP boot loader with the W2K boot loader. Run an XP repair, repairing only the boot and startup

Dual boot Linux/Windows XP HOWTO?
At the A: prompt, type SYS C: What it accomplishes is to overwrite the boot files (from XP) that were left behind when you 'removed' XP from the second drive. Just editing BOOT.INI will do you no good, in this case, as the XP boot files were installed on the C: drive when you choose to do a "New install,

XP Boot CD
I have a dual OS (XP Home and Linux) system that is setup: IDE0 (KT266A MB): DVD IDE1 (ditto) : CDW IDE2 (Promise TX2-133): Maxtor 80GB IDE3 (ditto, 2nd channel): WD 13GB The Maxtor disk was setup to boot XP - I use a floppy when I want Linux. The partitions are: Maxtor: 1: 13 GB FAT32 (C:) 2: 67 GB secondary 5: .5

XP Install on SATA Drive
5 boot Win98se no problem. But trying to boot XP off the first partition on the second HD (using BootMagic) just reboots the computer. In the sense that the XP boot.ini has been setup for that particular config and when BM attempts to boot it with the first HD being booted by the bios, XP gets royally confused

Cloning a dual boot Linux & Windows XP disk (Norton Ghost sucks)
David B. dd...@nh.ultranet.com alt os windows-xp Format the SCSI drive, install Windows 98 on it, after 98 is up and running boot from the XP boot disk kit from the MS website and use the repair option. Home http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33290 Pro