Article View: alt.comp.hardware
Article #388Re: Multi-boot Windows XP without special software
From: Timothy Daniels
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:48
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:48
15 lines
2202 bytes
2202 bytes
"Lane Lewis" wrote:
>
> You don't have to do any of that. Windows has it's own loader,
> just divide your drive into two partitions and load one version
> then the other. Startup will give you a choice between the two.
What is "any of that"? Assuming that you would want the
safety of a second drive in case the 1st one fails, you still need
2 hard drives. And if you want your basic system on both
hard drives, you'd still need to image it from one hard drive
to the other.
*TimDaniels*
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3vWdnVC1CrfsxieiRVn-hg@comcast.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<ptCdnTbQJ5T1SCSiRVn-gQ@comcast.com> <ohoub.29760$w66.747035@twister.tampabay.rr.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114d12,c5345e612bc72464 X-Google-Attributes: gid114d12,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,c5345e612bc72464 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-18 09:48:35 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:48:33 -0600 From: "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alive.computers.hardware.harddisks References: <ptCdnTbQJ5T1SCSiRVn-gQ@comcast.com> <ohoub.29760$w66.747035@twister.tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: Multi-boot Windows XP without special software Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:48:37 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <3vWdnVC1CrfsxieiRVn-hg@comcast.com> Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.130.78.252 X-Trace: sv3-Ab8rBGnOy/J2cPSXAXGQOzdNpZ31NCpKzgNnN9Wq6oEw0OUdCsXA69roVnsDL6cILZCrjNWWkgETRCF!VtT/umbElDsOwgQdqiBcIb/KEQkLB38exwjyDVPK1DxahdGQncP6pOB7b9CMpA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1