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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: ricky1me on August 30, 2004, 05:28:32 PM
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I have - with the great help of all that replied to my last messages - been able to get two xp systems on the same HD and go back and forth between the two to boot.
Question#1
When I boot from H:
(c: of course was the original system partition)
Partition Majic says that c: is "active" and I am unable to hide it when having booted from h:
However, Ms manage says that h: is "boot"
I want to hide c: when booted from h:
Question#2
When I attempt to install bootmajic it only gives me the option to install it on drive d: which I do not want to. I want to install it on c: system partition.
Thank you very much for your great help
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Forget drive letters, they change when booting from one partition to the other. Which ever one boots, is "C". The others, you can define.
Lets call them Partition #1 and Partition #2. Both must be Primary, not Logical Partitions. Install BootMagic on #1. You can then hide #1 from #2 (when you boot to #2, you can't see #1), but not #2 from #1. Change the volume labels, so you'll know which one you're booted into, call #1 WINXP#1, call #2 WINXP#2.
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Hi,
When I use Partition Majic to copy a partition it only makes it an extended partition. Is an extended partition a logical partition?
I would use Image For Dos but it seems to only create an image compressed...
Thank you for your help
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<<When I use Partition Majic to copy a partition it only makes it an extended partition. Is an extended partition a logical partition?>>
Yes. Extended partition is a primary partition and it can contain many logical partitions. Primary bootable partitions need to start within the 1024 cylinder boundary.
<<I would use Image For Dos but it seems to only create an image compressed>>
???
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Image for dos creates a compressed image. The size of the partition copied is much larger than the size of the image saved. If I made an image of the same size I could just make it active and boot from it...