Re: XP home on a different HD

[D.Currie]

"Larry" > wrote in message
...
> I have XP Home on C HD, and I would like to install the same on another HD
D. I think that is called multiboot. The old or original XP is corrupted and
I would like to putz around with it to see if i cant fix it. (LOL) I have
saved all my data to the HD D. (I think so, first time I did a save. about 3
gigs of stuff) There is no partition on the D drive. Its a 40 gig and
using about 20gig. I have looked at partitoin in the help section and a
book (Windows inside out) by Microsoft. Been in safe mode but I cant find
Disk New Partition Wizard.
> Looks like I need to buy stock in Partition Magic?

If you have data on D, then you have a partition on D. You can't write
anything to a drive unless it's got a partition.

If you want to shrink that partition and create a new one in the then-empty
space, you'll need something like partition magic.

[Larry]

...
> I have XP Home on C HD, and I would like to install the same on another HD
D. I think that is called multiboot. The old or original XP is corrupted and
I would like to putz around with it to see if i cant fix it. (LOL) I have
saved all my data to the HD D. (I think so, first time I did a save. about 3
gigs of stuff) There is no partition on the D drive. Its a 40 gig and
using about 20gig. I have looked at partitoin in the help section and a
book (Windows inside out) by Microsoft. Been in safe mode but I cant find
Disk New Partition Wizard.
> Looks like I need to buy stock in Partition Magic?

If you have data on D, then you have a partition on D. You can't write
anything to a drive unless it's got a partition.

If you want to shrink that partition and create a new one in the then-empty
space, you'll need something like partition magic.


Thanks !! I guess I was not asking the right question !!..I was under the impression that you could use XP Home to make a partition on a HD that was in use and had data on it.

Thanks all for the help !!
Larry

[Kelly]

Larry,

Cross post properly in the future:
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

As for the latter, yes.


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"Larry" > wrote in message
...
> ...
> > I have XP Home on C HD, and I would like to install the same on another
HD
> D. I think that is called multiboot. The old or original XP is corrupted
and
> I would like to putz around with it to see if i cant fix it. (LOL) I have
> saved all my data to the HD D. (I think so, first time I did a save. about
3
> gigs of stuff) There is no partition on the D drive. Its a 40 gig and
> using about 20gig. I have looked at partitoin in the help section and a
> book (Windows inside out) by Microsoft. Been in safe mode but I cant find
> Disk New Partition Wizard.
> > Looks like I need to buy stock in Partition Magic?
>
> If you have data on D, then you have a partition on D. You can't write
> anything to a drive unless it's got a partition.
>
> If you want to shrink that partition and create a new one in the
then-empty
> space, you'll need something like partition magic.
>
>
> Thanks !! I guess I was not asking the right question !!..I was under the
impression that you could use XP Home to make a partition on a HD that was
in use and had data on it.
>
> Thanks
all for the help !!
>
Larry
>