Dual Boot help

TheMagicPirate · 11 Mar 2006 at 20:36

I have a 40gig drive that i have split into two, 25 and 15 gig. I want to install windows xp on both 'drives' and have the option to choose which one to boot up when i turn on my pc.

How would I go about this. I already have windows installed on the 25 gig drive.

Thanks

TMP

Squidge · 11 Mar 2006 at 21:49

Put your Windows disk in the cdrom, reboot, and reinstall to the other partition? It shouldn't affect the existing installation if it's on a different partition, and it normally places a boot menu so you can select which to run at boot time (right click "My computer" -> "Properties" -> "Advanced" -> "Startup And Recovery" to edit). However, it may complain about windows activation.

DaveBennett · 12 Mar 2006 at 00:11

What squidge says is the way to do it, I managed to do that on my comp once and when I went back and tryed to do it again for fun it worked when I did that (its a old comp, im constantly breaking stuff on it

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TheMagicPirate · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:08

Cheers guys, got xp working on both perfectly now.

I've activeated my main partition (by phone :mad:

) but am I likley to come into problems when I activate the 2nd partition?

The licence states one cd key per pc so I should be ok?

SpineyDemon · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:10

you will need a second key i think, unless you phone them and explain the situation.

TheMagicPirate · 14 Mar 2006 at 12:04

Just activated over the phone.

They asked me 'How many machines this software is installed on?' and I told them 'Just the one'

Seemed to work fine.