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re: Consolidating dual-boots (98 and XP) to a new drive
Friday, June 20, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed Meadows
(55 messages posted)
Thanks for the info!!! A bit of a hack but it looks like to me it should work.
On Friday, June 20, 2008 at 1:35 pm, Quasimodo wrote:
>Oh yeah, been there, done that... but it's not as bad as jaf makes you believe.
>You have the advantage that your 98 sits on a separate disk that you can pull out.
>In my case I had the drives C:(98), D:(XP) and E:(shared data) on the same physical
>disk.
>So, don't despair, it can be done.
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>First make sure that you have these files in the top directory on your XP drive:
>boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com
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>Edit the boot.ini to look like this:
>[boot loader]
>timeout=30
>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>[operating systems]
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/fastdetect
>/NoExecute=OptIn
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>Then you need a program that does drive mapping. I had that in the Pertition Magic
>set of programs, but I am sure it can be found for free somewhere (maybe someone
>else can suggest a good one...???)
>You need this drive mapping program to change all registry entries that refer to
>programs that you have loaded on the drive D:, which will be drive C: soon.
>Run this in XP while it is still drive D: and re-map everything to drive C:. Make
>sure that no other programs are running when you do this...
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>Now shut down, pull out the old drive C:, connect the newer drive as master on the
>first chain, and then try to start the system up.
>If it fails to start, then you may have to use the repair options on the XP-CD and
>run fixmbr and fixboot.
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>That should be all. Good luck.
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>Quasimodo
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