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Win XP in Dual Operating System???

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go4saket
go4saket Original post #1
Dec 18, 2005 at 6:15 PM
Hello Friends!

I have five partitions on my HDD with a dual OS i.e Win XP in c: and Win 2K in D:

To do this I first installed Win 2K in D: and then installed Win XP in C:

Is it possible to have Win XP in both the partitions following the above mentioned procedure. If not, is there any other way to install Win XP in both the partitions so that I get an option to boot in either of them when I start my computer.

Thank you.
dIgItaL_BrAt
Dec 18, 2005 at 6:24 PM
Yes,u can have 2 XP's in 2 seperate partitions (i've had 4 copies of XP simultaneously on my system,don't ask me why!).
Just make sure u assign different names to each in the boot.ini file to differentiate between the two.
R
Dec 18, 2005 at 6:44 PM
yueah... u just have to take care of the boot.ini for ur own convinience!