Re: Partition and Dual Boot MkII (longish)
- From: "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:35:46 GMT
"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 01/12/2005 pmj wrote:
>
>> & Also an Autorun.inf File
>> & (usually? - possibly depending on whether it's an OEM or Retail
>> Version?) a Folder called "cdsample"
>
> Not on mine, that was a straight dir > D:\Temp\dir.txt so it shows
> the top level of the CD.
But surely it needs an Autorun.inf File, so that the (Graphical)
"Welcome to windoze" thingy will Automatically Start, when the CD
is Inserted into the Drive with windoze Running?
As opposed to the other (MSDOS based) Setup Routine, which you get
after the Boot Menu, when yo uBoot up off it.
>> Setup.exe
>
> When did you last have an eye test pmj :-)))
LOL!!!
I was actually referring to the Files that are (or should be) in the
"Win98" Folder!
:-)
Yes, there's a Setup.exe in the *Root* Folder, but there's *also*
another (different) Setup.exe in the "Win98" Folder, along with the
other stuff, such as Format.com & the .CAB Files that I mentioned.
:-)
>> Make sure, though, to allow Room for a Partition for your own stuff?
>> - My Documents etc.
>
> I wouldn't put them on the first drive, as I set it out that would
> be a physically separate disk.
Ah right, yes.
But wouldn't it also make sense to have a Partition on that Hard Disk
for stuff?
So that his Data can be stored (or rather backed up) onto a *separate*
Physical Hard Disk, rather than (or as well as) just another Partition
on a Hard Disk?
>>> ... you will have some issues activating 2 copies of XP as you
>>> only have one licence.
>>
>> Yep - But if they are on the same Machine/Hardware (which they are),
>> then there's no problem at all.
>
> OK.
>
>> Besides...
>> If there was a prob with Activation, you would just have to be
>> prepared to keep Wiping (one of) the Installations & Re-Installing
>> it, each time ithe 30 days Activation Period Runs out.
>
> But Hawkeye may have a life!!!
Yes, of course!
:-)
Bu the did say he wanted some "fun", didn't he?
How do we know what he thinks of as "Fun", until we make various
suggestions like that?
:-)
He's already mentioned that he wants more than one Installation of
*both* WinXP & W98, so I assume he isn't averse to a fair amount of
Fiddling around!
:-)
>> I would suggest (especially since he already has the w98
>> Installation & now has a 2nd Hard Disk, that he could do that
>> a bit later?
>
> No, don't play about, get it right from the start.
Fair comment.
So he has a choice, doesn't he?
:-)
>>> Run Partition Commander and shrink the current primary partition
>>> on the 'C' drive to about 6GB.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to do all this after he has got the main
>> WinXP Installation Up & Running?
>> It sounds ever so complicated, for a first time go?
>
> Not as complicated as trying to sort out 2 x HD's each with 1 or more
> OS later, keep the data separate from the start (and preferably backed
> up off the machine).
Maybe...
But *if* (as he suspects) he hasn't actually got a proper w98 Install
CD, then he is going to want to be absolutely sure that he doesn't lose
his existing Installation of w98, isn't he?
& trying to ReSize a Partition (as opposed to just Deleting it & then
ReCreating the Partition(s) needed with the Sizes wanted) always has
a risk.
If he at least has his WinXP Installation up & Running on another,
separate Physical Hard Disk, then he can always take the time to sort
out the w98 Installation as & when.
& (as I mentioned) he can even just *Copy* the w98 Files & Folders
(from within WinXP) to the New Hard Disk (temporarily) Wipe the original
Hard Disk & then Copy them back.
Yes, that would also Involve doing a SYS C: (to get the w98 Boot Sector
back onto it) & then a FIXMBR & FIXBOOT (to get the WinXP Boot Loader
Files onto it).
But it saves the potentially Risky business of trying to ReSize a
Partition that has a (working) Operating System on it.
>> Though yes, do that preparation once & you won't need to do it again
>> (or it will be easier the next time you do need to do it)!
>> :-)
>
> Absolutely.
"Practice makes perfect"!
:-)
& "If at first you don't succeed, then try, try & try again"!!!
(making sure to back up your stuff properly *before* the first try!)
--
pmj
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