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How Move OS XP from Old to New HD?
What you should have is an XP boot disk. In fact you should have a boot disk for every operating system within your control. Just basic insurance. The simplest way is to just start installing, use the default install (Mandrake calls it the "recommended" install) and when asked, tell the installer to use the menu

I'm considering setting up a dual-boot of Me and XP...
I thought this would destroy my xp installation but it did not. I can safely load the xp bootloader to get into xp. However I did some research I found that I must install /boot to the first 1024 cylindars of the primary drive not the extended partition. I guess what these means is that I'll have to free up space

Suse, PCLinuxOS with Windows XP Boot Issues
With Windows XP, if you re-connect the old HD, the OS will detect the other OS at some point and exercise its multi-boot capability, giving you the option of God knows what you were doing, presumably you got that result when thrashing around after you didnt clone the physical drive but cloned the XP boot

XP boot up without DOS
What I did was boot the computer to MS-DOS (from a floppy) and ran the Windows 98 SE setup from CD. Windows 98 installed and runs fine... I've installed some of the applications and they are okay. Now, the article says, "After you successfully install Windows 9x and restart your computer, the Windows XP boot loader

XP Boot Floppy, what a utter Joke..
On my old win2000 disk, when it was the only disk in the system, it's boot.ini OS entry was as follows: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT= "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect So I figured that the entry that I needed to place now in my new system, where the XP installation is the

Windows XP boot loader DOESN'T WORK! ...heLP!
I decided to try an autoexec/config.sys menu under DOS, so that after selecting 98 from the XP boot loader I then get the DOS menu, and from that I select an 'option-D' or 'option-E', ie whether I want 98 to start from D: or E:. Ie the idea being that if only one disk is plugged in then I select option-D where 98

2000/XP DUAL BOOT:TRICKS AND TIPS
I boot to a second copy of XP on another drive and then use XXCopy to do an incremental backup of the primary drive to a second partition on the backup drive. Since the main version of XP is not running, all the system files can be copied. Bob AA Koch wrote: Does the Windows XP boot manager support XP/XP dual-boot?

Linux and XP Dual Boot?
If its not present, then you may need to see: http://www.dougknox. com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm You do not have to reinstall 98. All you need to do is boot with a Win98 boot disk and at the A: prompt type SYS C: Then follow the procedure for repairing the Windows XP Boot loader. Addtionally, if you converted your C

Removing XP Boot loader
Go to Bootdisk.com and get a XP boot disk or see if you can copy the proper files over while in DOS to a blank formatted floppy. The boot disk should contain: Should be found in the root C:. Boot.ini NTLDR Ntdetect.com bootsect.dos ntbootdd.sys---Not found on all machines so it's not a problem if not present.

Problem with Boot menu of Windows 98 / XP Professional
If XP is important, there are several other boot methods. 1) save the GRUB boot sector to a floppy (before you overwrite it with XP's), give XP back its MBR, and use the XP boot loader to load GRUB. It's a simple process, if a bit tedious 2) try other boot managers. I've had very good luck with System Commander,

FreeBSD Installer (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")
Richard G. Harper rghar...@email.com microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Get a Windows 98 Emergency Boot Diskette. Start the computer with it. When you reach the command prompt, type the following and press Enter: SYS C: That will replace the XP boot files with Win98 boot files, making the system boot exclusively

Removing XP Dual Boot Manager
Kent W. England [MVP] k...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp hardware XP needs the following to boot: 1) BIOS selects hard disk as boot device 2) active primary partition is properly entered in master boot record 3) first sector of drive is XP boot sector 4) ntldr and ntdetect.com are on the root of C:\ 5)

boot.ini for dual boot XP & ME - please help
I picked up a built by ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and am having some boot issues with Windows XP (I had no such problems with Windows ME - running a dual boot here). Windows XP will install fine, but the problems start when I install the Catalyst 3.1 drivers. Upon rebooting my system after installing the Catalyst drivers,

XP PRO and Linux 7.2 dual-boot problems
How ever if you install windows 2000 after windows xp, follow the below step by step instruction: How do you install Windows 2000 after you've installed Windows XP (without using 3rd party software)? You must repair the Windows XP Boot Loader after installing Windows 2000 to a different partition.

Win98/XP No Floppy Drive Can't Boot to 98
Since you already have 95 installed, just use a boot disk for it to boot the computer and do a SYS C: Then follow the instructions in my write up to rebuild the BOOTSECT.DOS file and repair the XP boot loader. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/9x Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks

Dual Boot with XP and 2000
Jeff Richards JRicha...@msn.com.au microsoft public win98 setup What boot manager are you using? If it's the XP boot manager then asking in an XP group may provide some hints on how XP utilities can be used to restore the XP boot manager. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Gary" <jra...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

Win XP boot up problems
Uncle Theodore uncletheod...@hotmail.com alt os linux kenohki wrote: Hi, I've just installed Redhat Linux 7.2 on my system, and I'd like to get it to dual boot with Windows XP. My hard disk partitions are set up as follows: Primary Partition 12GB NTFS (Windows XP boot) Extended Partition 5.9GB FAT32 (used for

Boot Up Time with XP
If Windows detected a Firewire controller during installation, these drivers will already be installed and will be loaded at Boot time. You can verify that these drivers are being loaded by hitting F8 when the "Windows XP" logo screen appears, to get the XP boot menu. Select the option to "Enable Boot Logging".

Dual boot XP & Mandrake 8.2
8) Del fichero que te has bajado adjunto a este mensaje, extraemos el fichero boot.bin que contiene y lo dejamos en la carpeta C:\XP\BOOT 9) Arrancamos Nero (tengo la versión en inglés, por tanto voy a describir los pasos que se darían en dicha versión)... 10) Seleccionamos en la columna de la izquierda"CD_ROM

XP Boot Disk
Tell the install program to put Grub in the MBR - this will make the XP partition unbootable for the moment, but it's ok 'cause we're going to fix that after we boot the Linux system. After installation you will need to expand your Grub configuration file to include the ability to boot the XP system, and any other