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re: Dual boot question.
Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 8:52 am
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Posted by toni_clifton (1 messages posted)


A soluton is that you put both of your os on an active partition. In partition magic you can create a new partition. When he asks you if you want to put an OS on it you select yes. He will suggest you to put the OS on the harddisk before cylinder 1024 Otherwise the OS will not be bootable


On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 4:51 pm, Tom Moceri wrote:
>Hi, I have me installed on the beginning of my partition and xp installed on the
>extended. Works fine but i have to use partition magic to switch active partitions
>then my system boots from one to the other. How can i get a bootmenu right from
>startup so i can choose which one i want to start, and without using a floppy everytime.
> I've tried the function in xp that allows to choose OS but only xp is listed. Should
>i have placed xp at the beginning of the partition then me on extended? Note that
>i have only one drive split into one extended with two logical partitions. Thanks.
> P.S. I'm running windows xp corp 2600.


Written in response to:
Dual boot question. (Tom Moceri: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 4:51 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Dual boot question. (esto: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 at 6:05 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Dual boot question. (Tom Moceri: Tue, Sep 18, 2001, 4:51 pm)
-re: Dual boot question. (toni_clifton: Wed, Sep 19, 2001, 8:52 am)
*re: Dual boot question. (esto: Tue, Jun 25, 2002, 6:05 am)
-re: Dual boot question. (garyl: Thu, Sep 20, 2001, 4:12 pm)
*re: Dual boot question. (David Rolfe: Sun, Nov 4, 2001, 10:47 am)
*re: Dual boot question. (clint r: Wed, Mar 13, 2002, 3:09 pm)
*re: Dual boot question. (Ante: Sat, Oct 6, 2001, 10:21 am)
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