Re: two XPs on the same hard disk

[Jim Macklin]

Are both these the same version of XP? You will do better
to just install XP once and set up user accounts with
different applications and permissions.


"Roy" > wrote in message
...
| Hi
|
| I would like to install two separate XP's, (not xp and a
older OS) on the same harddrive with dual boot.
| [One for heavy applications, the other just surfing and
leisure].
|
| I used partition magic to create two fat32 primary
partitions and one logical ntfs data partition.
|
| The first Install went ofcourse fine. When tried The
second XP Setup, It said XP could not be installed on that
partition.
| After converting to fat, the setup went fine, but it
messed up the first Install.
| I reinstalled all over, but now I'm afraid to setup the
second XP without ruin the first one.
|
| 1) what are the pre-conditions for that configuartion to
work properly ?
|
| thanks
| Roy

[Papa]

Why do that? XP is a great operating system and is certainly capable of
handling unrelated tasks with ease. Just keep the tasks separated, perhaps
even in different partitions.

"Roy" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> I would like to install two separate XP's, (not xp and a older OS) on the
same harddrive with dual boot.
> [One for heavy applications, the other just surfing and leisure].
>
> I used partition magic to create two fat32 primary partitions and one
logical ntfs data partition.
>
> The first Install went ofcourse fine. When tried The second XP Setup, It
said XP could not be installed on that partition.
> After converting to fat, the setup went fine, but it messed up the first
Install.
> I reinstalled all over, but now I'm afraid to setup the second XP without
ruin the first one.
>
> 1) what are the pre-conditions for that configuartion to work properly ?
>
> thanks
> Roy

[Gordon]

Roy cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
> My problem that one os loads lots of services that slows down the computer,

And just how "slow" is "Slow"? A few seconds at start-up?

[Roy]

unfortuanly, it's more than a "few" seconds.
In addition switching between processes & work in general is much slower.

----- Gordon wrote: -----

Roy cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
> My problem that one os loads lots of services that slows down the computer,

And just how "slow" is "Slow"? A few seconds at start-up?

[Jim Macklin]

See www.blackviper.com



"Roy" > wrote in message
...
| unfortuanly, it's more than a "few" seconds.
| In addition switching between processes & work in general
is much slower.
|
| ----- Gordon wrote: -----
|
| Roy cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
| > My problem that one os loads lots of services that
slows down the computer,
|
| And just how "slow" is "Slow"? A few seconds at
start-up?
|

[Alex Nichol]

Roy wrote:

>I would like to install two separate XP's, (not xp and a older OS) on the same harddrive with dual boot.
>[One for heavy applications, the other just surfing and leisure].
>
>I used partition magic to create two fat32 primary partitions and one logical ntfs data partition.


You need separate installations one to each of the two Primary
partitions (it does not matter whether they are FAT or NTFS) and a
separate Boot manager to choose which - and to hide them from each
other. For that use the Boot Magic program that came with your
Partition Magic


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[roy]

thanks, that did the trick.

Is it poosible to load/unload different startup programs for different
profiles as well as services ?


"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
...
> See www.blackviper.com
>
>
>
> "Roy" > wrote in message
> ...
> | unfortuanly, it's more than a "few" seconds.
> | In addition switching between processes & work in general
> is much slower.
> |
> | ----- Gordon wrote: -----
> |
> | Roy cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
> | > My problem that one os loads lots of services that
> slows down the computer,
> |
> | And just how "slow" is "Slow"? A few seconds at
> start-up?
> |
>
>

[roy]

thanks, that did the trick.

Is it poosible to load/unload different startup programs for different
profiles as well as services ?


"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
...
> See www.blackviper.com
>
>
>
> "Roy" > wrote in message
> ...
> | unfortuanly, it's more than a "few" seconds.
> | In addition switching between processes & work in general
> is much slower.
> |
> | ----- Gordon wrote: -----
> |
> | Roy cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
> | > My problem that one os loads lots of services that
> slows down the computer,
> |
> | And just how "slow" is "Slow"? A few seconds at
> start-up?
> |
>
>

[roy]

thanks, that did the trick.

Is it poosible to load/unload different startup programs for different
profiles as well as services ?


"Jim Macklin" > wrote in message
...
> See www.blackviper.com
>
>
>
> "Roy" > wrote in message
> ...
> | unfortuanly, it's more than a "few" seconds.
> | In addition switching between processes & work in general
> is much slower.
> |
> | ----- Gordon wrote: -----
> |
> | Roy cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
> | > My problem that one os loads lots of services that
> slows down the computer,
> |
> | And just how "slow" is "Slow"? A few seconds at
> start-up?
> |
>
>