Is there a way to run a dual boot system on a single hdd with 2 partitions? I have a C: and a D: partition. WinXP Home is installed on C: and I want to install WinXP Pro on D: so that I can upgrade to Windows X64 to play FarCry64. Is this a possibility?
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Dual boot: WinXP Home and WinXP Pro ???
- Thread starter jchsatx09
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Yeah will work fine. Install the first OS on its own partition. Then boot up with windows xp pro cd and install it in the remaining hdd space.
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it should work but why not just format completly - and install xp 64 ? it can run 32bit apps - just as long as you can get drivers.
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boot.ini is always present. It's a hidden system file.
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open 'My computer' goto the tools menu and choose "folder options" click on the 'view' tab and uncheck "hide system files and folders" and also select "shjow hidden files and folders". then browse to C:\ and you will see the Boot.ini file.jchsatx09 said:
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pik4chu said:
This is what I have
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
How should it be with 2 OS's?
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jchsatx09 said:
you would see 2 lines of this, only differences should be the partition value, and name of the OS shown in quotation marks.
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
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