How to dual boot 2 XP's?

Discussion in 'Acronis Disk Director Suite' started by tombuur, Nov 22, 2007.

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  1. tombuur

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    I prefer that the OS partitions be hidden from each other, but it can be done the other way (as it is when you use Microsoft's way). As long as the Windows partition gets the right drive letter, you should be okay.

    The need for the partitions to be visible (unhidden) during the OSS installation is to avoid the "grayed out checkbox" bug. If an OS partition is hidden when you install OSS, OSS "locks" the partition in the Hidden state so it ends up being Hidden and Active and the OS won't boot. Since the checkbox is disabled (grayed out), you can't change it and have to edit the BOOTWIZ.OSS file manually to fix it (easy to do).

    The trick is to not boot into either Windows until after you've set the OSS menu entry properties for each one so that the other OS partition is Hidden.

    I haven't yet read through tombuur's new post, but will.
     
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    Brian K has pointed out that I forgot the step with unallocated harddisk space. The image I used for XP1/XP2 was backed up during the first setup while I had unallocated space. Maybe that is why it worked with a allocated space too.
     
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    MudCrab,

    Thanks. It's clear now.
     
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