Re: Installing WinXp on a 2nd Hard Disk, on a System with w98(SE)
- From: "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:25:09 GMT
"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 08/12/2005 pmj wrote:
>
>> To do it (havin gmultiple w9x Installations) without that sort
>> of Faffing around does need a (3rd Party) Boot Manager, which
>> in itself introduces extra complications.
>
> I'm a bit confused why you think a boot manager introduces
> complications?
Only, really, cos what a (Independent, 3rd Party) Boot Manager does
is *completely* outside whatever windoze does (which, basically is the
point of it!) - soyes, taht enables you to do all sorts of stuff that
windoze has no idea about - but that can also lead to Confuzzlement,
when used by someone (such as Hawkeye?) who is just starting to find
out about this sort of thing?
>... You think that manually changing the active partition is easier!!!
No. not necessarily!
:-)
But actually, it's not at all difficult.
<snip>
>> OK - So I should have made 2 Partitions (on the 2nd Hard Disk),
>> first, before doing the WinXP Install? - Either using the
>> Partitioning thing in the WinXP Install Routine, or using FDisk
>> as originally discussed.
>> :-)
>
> That was the point of my test really. I wanted to know if the XP
> installer could create, say, a primary partition and an extended
> partition with logical drives and then allow you to choose one of the
> logical drives for the install.
Ah!...
>... I appreciate it can be installed anywhere but I was interested
> to know if the *installer* could/would loop round creating several
> partitions and then let you choose any of them.
Ah!
I see what you were getting at now!
:-)
Yes, it (the WinXP Partitioning thingy, that is part of the WinXP
Install Routine), can *definitely* do that - yes, you can "Loop"
around, Creating (&/or Deleting & ReCreating) whatever Partitions
you want[*1], until you have got the ones you want & *then* yo ucan
Select one of them to Install the WinXP into - it *still* though
(obviously?) always puts its actuall Boot Files onto the PFirst
Partition that is Marked as Active on the first Physical Hard Disk
(& incidentally, will tell you if it can't find one & will *attempt*
to Create one & Mark it as Active, if it can)
[*1] Subject to the proviso that you can't choose whether or not to
Create a Primary Partition or an Extended Partition (& neither can you
Create more than one Primary Partition on a Hard Disk, using it) -
it seems to always assume that the *first* Partition on a Hard Disk
will be a Primary Partition & any subsequent Partitions are Created
as Logical Drives within an Extended Partition.
(I *may* be a bit wrong (about the bit about the Primary Partition,
with 2nd Physical Hard Disks), but to answer your Query, yes basically
it will do what you asked - I can confirm it for definite if you want,
when I've tried it & compared how it does things on a *2nd* Physical
Hard Disk, rather than on an only Physical Hard Disk.
<snip>
>> Yes, it definitely is Possible - it (WinXP) can be Installed into
>> a Logical Drive in an Extended Partition no probs at all!
>
> I know that pmj!!!
OK! - But I didn't know that you knew that! Did I?
:-)
>From your Q I thought you were asking if it could be Installed
into (& would Boot up & Run OK from) a Logical Drive in an Extended
Partition...
>.. I wanted to know the installer's capabilities (see above).
Ah! OK - I see that *now*!
:-)
& yes (as mentioned above) the Install Routine can do what you asked
about it.
It's obviously(?) not as immediately obvious as some other ways of
doing it (& it's not a Graphical Utility), but it can do Deleting
& Creating of Partitions OK & it can Loop around, while you get them
how you want them, before then carrying on with the Installation itself.
--
pmj
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