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Copy Settings (XP) ?
A long time ago, I set up my machine for dual-boot using a modified
boot.ini on two drives, C and D. It worked fine until the other day, my first drive (C) failed to boot, and I removed it. I immediately discovered that the boot from the remaining second drive (now C) did not have the same settings (control paneldisplay) I wanted and had been using. I had to manually re-do those settings. At the same time I wonder if there are other settings I have not spotted yet that I will have to change. I surmise that this happened because when I was doing the dual boot previously, the settings were being picked up from the first drive despite my boot selection to boot from the second drive. And that therefore I was lulled into thinking the settings were set for the second drive when actually they were not. Okay, I think I remember an XP function for saving and copying settings. I am thinking that copying settings would have been something I should have done when I created the second drive, and would have been a fast way to do same. I can't find such a function in XP's help nor Google. Someone point me somewhere to help me in the future? Thanks Duke |
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:39:44 -0400, "Twayne"
wrote: Are you talking about the win.ini file? Probably all you had to do was delete the line for the removed drive and put the proper drive designator in the line that was left until you got it replaced? No? No sir. I changed boot.ini to effect the dual boot. The original was: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect To: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional 1" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional 2" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect which produces a two choice menu defaulting to first choice at boot. Duke |
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:09:56 -0400, "dadiOH"
wrote: Looking at your boot.ini, it appears you have two installs of XP (as do I). If that is the case, I can't see how any of the settings on XP2 would be the same as those on XP1 unless you manually made them so as neither install would use any settings from the other system... they are two, separate and distinct things just as if one were Windows and the other Linux. I really do agree. But something happened, and my theory is the only explanation I can come up with. I may have to test things out one day. Thanks Duke |
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:49:52 -0400, mm
wrote: I'm no pro, but I don't like your theory of what is happening either. Yet, let me try to answer your background question. Do you mean the File and Settings Transfer Wizard. You run it in one OS to copy the data, mostly MS related (there's another tool for Mozilla) and then in the other OS to "paste" them. But it's more for migrating to a new OS. LIke from 98 to XP. Both OSes have this. Here it might do more than you would want, and I don't like your theory. I remember now, and you are right insofaras it probably will do more than I wanted. As for my theory - I don't like it particularly either. But you got a better one? Thanks Duke |
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