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Learning Boy

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    two operating system
    « on: October 13, 2008, 01:28:36 AM »
    If in a computer there are two operating system then how any one knows that in which partition the certain operating system is installed?

    Dusty



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    Re: two operating system
    « Reply #1 on: October 13, 2008, 01:45:01 AM »
    One good deed is worth more than a year of good intentions.

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      Re: two operating system
      « Reply #2 on: October 15, 2008, 08:10:00 AM »
      i mean two different OS dusty

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      Re: two operating system
      « Reply #3 on: October 15, 2008, 08:33:46 AM »
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      how any one knows that in which partition the certain operating system is installed?
      You will notice the portion where you will select which Operating System will you use. The first one is where did you installed the first OS and second one is where did you installed the second OS.

      Did you get it?

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        Re: two operating system
        « Reply #4 on: October 15, 2008, 08:41:54 AM »
        I did not installed them that’s why I want to know the way to know where they are installed

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        Re: two operating system
        « Reply #5 on: October 15, 2008, 08:54:48 AM »
        So what's the bottom line? Do you want to delete the second OS?

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          Re: two operating system
          « Reply #6 on: October 15, 2008, 09:20:14 AM »
          No I want to format the d partition that’s why I want know the where the both OS are installed

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          Re: two operating system
          « Reply #7 on: October 15, 2008, 09:40:12 AM »
          Kindly post the boot.ini here.

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            Re: two operating system
            « Reply #8 on: October 18, 2008, 02:22:13 AM »
            how can i post the boot.ini here.

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            Re: two operating system
            « Reply #9 on: October 20, 2008, 04:21:38 PM »
             1. Click My Computer
             2. Open C: drive
             3. Click Tools>Folder Options>View
             4. In Hidden Files and Folders bullet "Show hidden files and folders"
             5. Untick "Hide protected system files (Recommended)"
             6. Click Apply>OK
             7. Close C: drive
             8. Close My Computer
             9. Open C:\Boot.ini using Notepad (I'll assume you know how to do that)
            10. Copy the file to the Clipboard (Again assuming you know how to)
            11. Paste the Clipboard entry into a forum Reply
            12. Send the Reply.

            Good luck

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              Re: two operating system
              « Reply #10 on: October 21, 2008, 01:29:53 AM »
              [boot loader]
              timeout=30
              default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
              [operating systems]
              multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect
              multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

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              Re: two operating system
              « Reply #11 on: October 21, 2008, 03:24:05 AM »
              From that it looks like you have two hard disks with an operating system on each one.

              Hard disk 0 (zero) partition 1 has Win XP Pro while hard disk 1 partition 1 has Win Server 2003.   Your default boot is to Win Server 2003.

              Generally hard disk 0 is drive C: so you would have to select that disk when the boot menu appears at startup in order to format D:.  You would then have to amend boot.ini to remove reference to Win Server 2003 and change the default boot to drive 0.

              Good luck
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