ninjageek Posted July 20, 2007 CID Share Posted July 20, 2007 I had always thought it was impossible to dual boot with the same versions of xp. You could not put xp pro on both the master and slave drive and dual boot them. By golly yes you can. I was goofing around and wanted to see if it could be done. I did it. I just renamed xp pro to xp home in the boot file, then installed xp pro again and it was done. Works anyway. Let me guess you all knew this the whole time?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted July 20, 2007 CID Share Posted July 20, 2007 ...um yeah lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted July 20, 2007 CID Share Posted July 20, 2007 Yeah.. which is why, depending on what is damaged, the repair utility for XP will have two entries for the same OS on the boot.ini file. and make you choose one before the system boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 20, 2007 CID Share Posted July 20, 2007 Let me guess you all knew this the whole time?? yep....... You should have asked... you could always do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHalf Posted July 21, 2007 CID Share Posted July 21, 2007 You may also want to adjust the "System Restore" within the slave drive and prevent that OS from monitoring your XPPro on the master drive in case of system failure. TheHalf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted July 21, 2007 Author CID Share Posted July 21, 2007 I don't ever use system restore. Its the first thing I turn off when installing xp for myself. I use norton ghost 2003 To keep xp backed up. I had always thought you could never run two versions of the same os system. Then one day playing with the boot files it kinda dawned on me. Hey why not? I also learned another neat trick. I downloaded a copy of xp pro. It was a modified in a way that looked pretty cool to me. Put my legit key in it and works fine. Oh the things you can learn playing around and just trying it out. But again. I ALWAYS keep a ghost image of the instalation on a seperate partition. That way if my idea fails I simply resotre it with ghost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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