Bob Harris
December 9th 03, 12:27 PM
What you are describing is a little unusual, but not
impossible. It is more common to load XP on one drive and
somehting different, like 98, ME, 2000 on the other. But,
an XP+XP dual boot is theoretically possible. However,
unless you have two XP licenses, you can not activate both
of them, and the one not activated will stop working in
about 30 days.
As for a potential fix: There is a command called FIXBOOT
that must be run from the XP recovery console. It can
find all indows operating systems on the PC and make a
simple boot menu that will permit you to choose which one
you want to invoke. To learn how to intall the recovey
console (or run form the XP CDROM) try these links:
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm (info is towards bottom
of webpage)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm
>-----Original Message-----
>I am a victim of a husband who thinks he knows what he's
>doing. I have two hard drives on my computer. My husband
>installed Windows XP onto both of the drives. Now the one
>that has all of my programs and documents on it will not
>boot and I cannot access the programs. The other drive
>isn't big enough to hold anything other than the
>operating system and the software I use to get on the
>Internet. Is there a way that I can make the larger drive
>the boot drive without having to reformat it and losing
>all my information? Thanks for any information you can
>give me. Also, does anyone know of a company or a
>software program that is capable of reovering information
>from a crashed drive. I have a 40GB hard drive that went
>dead under my husband's technical ability. Thanks again,
>
>Stephanie Carter
>.
>
impossible. It is more common to load XP on one drive and
somehting different, like 98, ME, 2000 on the other. But,
an XP+XP dual boot is theoretically possible. However,
unless you have two XP licenses, you can not activate both
of them, and the one not activated will stop working in
about 30 days.
As for a potential fix: There is a command called FIXBOOT
that must be run from the XP recovery console. It can
find all indows operating systems on the PC and make a
simple boot menu that will permit you to choose which one
you want to invoke. To learn how to intall the recovey
console (or run form the XP CDROM) try these links:
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm (info is towards bottom
of webpage)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm
>-----Original Message-----
>I am a victim of a husband who thinks he knows what he's
>doing. I have two hard drives on my computer. My husband
>installed Windows XP onto both of the drives. Now the one
>that has all of my programs and documents on it will not
>boot and I cannot access the programs. The other drive
>isn't big enough to hold anything other than the
>operating system and the software I use to get on the
>Internet. Is there a way that I can make the larger drive
>the boot drive without having to reformat it and losing
>all my information? Thanks for any information you can
>give me. Also, does anyone know of a company or a
>software program that is capable of reovering information
>from a crashed drive. I have a 40GB hard drive that went
>dead under my husband's technical ability. Thanks again,
>
>Stephanie Carter
>.
>