XP dual boot

I was wondering.... is it possible to dual boot the same copy of XP on te same computer, in order to have one for work and everyday use and one for testing or whatever?

 

HURST,

Sure. You can have 100 partitions of WinXP if you like. Microsoft don't mind and will activate each copy as you can only use one at a time. It's a different situation with Virtual Machines. You need a license for each OS.

 

Thanks.

Maybe I'll try it when I feel like playing with my laptop again...

 

The technique is covered here...

http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/index.htm

And some videos here...

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation-tutorials.htm

These videos describe using BING as the boot manager. You can use pqboot32.exe (a file from Partition Magic) as a simple boot manager if you don't need the full capabilities of BING or other boot managers.

 

I suppose you don't have the full version of FDISR,if so then the proposed solution will also work.

 

Great! Dan Goodell helped me to fix my MBR (by email) when I first got it corrupted and didn't kenw nothing about it... Very nice person and very helpful...

 

I followed Dan's tutorial and had 15 WinXPs on the one HD. I used BING as the boot manager. I recall it was all completed in an hour or two using a single basic WinXP image.