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Advice on 2nd XP on same box
Hi,
I have XP Pro and it is grinding down in speed due to the biz progs I have on it and I want to install another instance of XP on the same box so I can do my quicker jobs with that without the slowness of the current XP drive. I would like it on another full drive. Can I do this and how would I go about it? I am thinking taking the current XP out of my C Drive bay and putting the other drive in and then setting up XP then putting the initial XP back to C bay and the new XP into another bay. Is that correct or is there a better way? Also could I later use the new XP as the primary XP is I decided to put all my progs on the new one? Thank for the help. rock |
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Advice on 2nd XP on same box
you can leave the
current c drive alone and add the new disk as a secondary disk/slave. then insert your windows cd and setup the o.s. onto the new disk. carefully read the setup screens to ensure you select the right disk/free space it searches for. afterwards, the setup will produce a dual boot menu which will allow you to select either o.s. to launch. later you can tweak the boot.ini file and rename the descriptions to something like old win. and new win. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º "Rock" wrote in message ... Hi, I have XP Pro and it is grinding down in speed due to the biz progs I have on it and I want to install another instance of XP on the same box so I can do my quicker jobs with that without the slowness of the current XP drive. I would like it on another full drive. Can I do this and how would I go about it? I am thinking taking the current XP out of my C Drive bay and putting the other drive in and then setting up XP then putting the initial XP back to C bay and the new XP into another bay. Is that correct or is there a better way? Also could I later use the new XP as the primary XP is I decided to put all my progs on the new one? Thank for the help. rock |
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Advice on 2nd XP on same box
db.·.. ))) ·` .. . wrote:
you can leave the current c drive alone and add the new disk as a secondary disk/slave. then insert your windows cd and setup the o.s. onto the new disk. carefully read the setup screens to ensure you select the right disk/free space it searches for. afterwards, the setup will produce a dual boot menu which will allow you to select either o.s. to launch. later you can tweak the boot.ini file and rename the descriptions to something like old win. and new win. Thank you I'll give that a go. Rock |
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Advice on 2nd XP on same box
Of course you actually need two licences to run two instances of winxp on
the same PC, and you may have problems activating winxp. Installing properly written apps should have very little impact on performance, attempting to run multiple apps at the same time might have an impact if your hw isnt up to it "Rock" wrote in message ... db.·.. ))) ·` .. . wrote: you can leave the current c drive alone and add the new disk as a secondary disk/slave. then insert your windows cd and setup the o.s. onto the new disk. carefully read the setup screens to ensure you select the right disk/free space it searches for. afterwards, the setup will produce a dual boot menu which will allow you to select either o.s. to launch. later you can tweak the boot.ini file and rename the descriptions to something like old win. and new win. Thank you I'll give that a go. Rock |
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Advice on 2nd XP on same box
Give us some specs of your machine.....also HD size and how much is free.
You just might end up with 2 Slow OS ...one on each drive...... You gave us no info other than its running slow...... By installing another HD and then XP Pro onto that HD you still would need to reinstall your programs for them to run off the 2nd Installation....by the way its called a dual boot...yes you could just reinstall them into their original folders but then would they still run slow??? A lot of wasted time and your back to square one.. peter -- DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) "Rock" wrote in message ... Hi, I have XP Pro and it is grinding down in speed due to the biz progs I have on it and I want to install another instance of XP on the same box so I can do my quicker jobs with that without the slowness of the current XP drive. I would like it on another full drive. Can I do this and how would I go about it? I am thinking taking the current XP out of my C Drive bay and putting the other drive in and then setting up XP then putting the initial XP back to C bay and the new XP into another bay. Is that correct or is there a better way? Also could I later use the new XP as the primary XP is I decided to put all my progs on the new one? Thank for the help. rock |
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