Dual boot XP (32-bit) and XP Media Centre?

Simebaby · 24 Oct 2006 at 16:14

Hi All

As title - is it possible to have a system dual-booting Windows XP Pro (32-bit) and Windows Media Centre (32-bit).

I'm guessing not but confirmation would be great.

Cheers

Si.

gyro · 24 Oct 2006 at 16:20

Yes there shouldn't be no problems at all

Lee

csmager · 24 Oct 2006 at 16:56

Perfectly possible, but why? They're pretty much identical!

Conrad11 · 24 Oct 2006 at 17:10

MCE is just XP PRO with an addon?

Simebaby · 24 Oct 2006 at 17:13

Cheers all. It's for testing purposes, hence the strange request.

I thought it wouldn't work as it's just XP with boltons (as I didn't think you could have two installations of XP dual booting), but you live and learn.

Cheers

Si.

Simebaby · 24 Oct 2006 at 19:49

Didn't work after all - setup ran OK, on reboot machine just booted back into the original XP install.

Oh well...

csmager · 24 Oct 2006 at 19:50

If you install on different partitions, there should be no problem. If it didn't take care of the bootloader itself, have a look at the boot.ini file and change it manually.

Simebaby · 24 Oct 2006 at 19:57

The problem is it never gets as far as installing, so there's nothing to point the boot.ini file to - it reboots after setup finishes copying files (the first stage, before the graphical install starts), then just boots back to XP.

It is in a separate (logical) partition.