Re: Now we're multibooting (was the Non Multibooters return)
- From: "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:53:59 GMT
"Hawkeye23" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Having
> (a) got my new 2nd HDD installed, partitioned and formatted and
> (b)installed a 2nd version of W98SE from a proper CD onto
> the primary but not active partition of the 2nd HDD but
> (c)thereby lost access to my original version of W98SE on the
> primary active and only partition of the 1st HDD and lost with
> it my access to the internet and therefore my advisors in UPS but
> (d) eventually by embarking on my first major fiddling and
> faffing session eventually restoring access to my original W98SE
> along with access to the internet and my advisors but
> (e) having not solved the multi booting issue with the 2 versions
> of W98 and with some divergence of opinion as to which brand of
> faffing would overcome it best -
Well, it sounds to me like you've become fairly adept at several
different kinds of "Faffing" around!
:-)
& what you have achieved with it all (so far) sounds like a pretty
fair achievement!
:-)
So, you could always try *all* of the different kinds?
:-)
Or at least several of them?
:-)
But I presume your available time is limited to some degree, so that
may not be really very practical?
So...
> I decided to take the more general advice that had been urged on me
> for some time that multibooting 2 versions of w98 was a side issue
> to which we could return later and a better priority would now be
> to get on and install XPH on the 2nd HD
Well "better" priority will really depend on what your priorities are!
:-)
If you really like Faffing around (& possibly having to start all over
again at some, indeterminate, point), then it might well be a "better"
priority (& use of your time!<g>) to continue along with getting the
2 w9x installations MultiBooting?
:-)
But if you do decide to leave (for the moment) the MultiBooting of
the w9x Installations, don't worry, yes, you can come back to that
& do it after the other WinXP Installations have been Installed
& are up & Running OK.
BUT...
You must remember that there is a strong possibility (in fact
a definite Probability, or rather an almost certainty!) that when
you *do* come to do the W9x MultiBooting, you might have to do a bit
of stuff in the WinXP "Recovery Console", to sort things out, if you
find that you have to do stuff to the w9X Boot Files (& more
particularly the Boot Sector).
Luckily, you *have* got both w9x Installations Installed OK, so
(hopefully) you will be able to get away with not having to do a
w9x install again.
But if you *do* do another w9x Install, you need to be aware that
since w9x knows nothing about WinXP, it will happily Overwrite the
WinXP Boot Sector.
I'm not saying that to put you off!
Far from it!
:-)
But I think it's a good idea to be aware of that sort of thing.
It can all be got around & made Fixted OK, but sometimes (if you
haven't come across the prob before), it can be a bit disconcerting,
to find that you have, all of a sudden, lost the ability to Boot Up
into *any* of the WinXP Installations!
>... where multibooting I was assured would be a doddle.
LOL!
:-)
Remember - "doddle" is also a relative expression!
:-)
But yes, compared to all the Faffing around that can often be
involved with getting several w9x Installations to MultiBoot OK,
it *is*!
:-)
> And broadly speaking so it has proved.
Great!!!
But don't let that stop you from wanting to get back on with sorting
out the MultiBooting w9x Installs!
:-)
>...I have now installed a single version (so far) of xp on the first
> logical partition of the extended partition of the 2nd hd ie drive
> E:\. And now when you start up the pc you are presented with a DOS
> type black screen asking whether you want to boot into Windows XP
> or Windows.
> Both work and if you press the latter you get the original
> version of w98 on C:\
Yep, that's the standard (WinXP) Boot Menu.
You can make it show you something a bit more meaningful (or personal
to you), which will help no end when you get *another* WinXP
Installation Installed & you can alter the order that the different
Operating System Choices are shown in & the Time Delay that you get
(even making it wait (forever), rather than Defaulting to one
particular Operating System), by Editing the Boot.ini File, which is
in the Root Directory of the Active Partition, that the System is
Booted from.
It's Marked by windoze as a Read Only (& Hidden) File, so you will
have to alter those Attributes, otherwise windoze won't let you
Edit/Change/Save over it.
& it might well be a good idea to Save a Copy of it somewhere Safe
(preferably in the Root of the Drive, (or another Drive), so you can
easily get to it, using MSDOS, or the WinXP Recovery Console) if
(or rather when) you need to.
& it can also be a good idea to Rename the Copy, just so that it
doesn't get mixed up with (or accidentally used as!) the other one.
:-)
>... and as a bonus the internet connection works on both.
Well, yes, so it should!!!
But I can see why you are pleased that it is also working on the new
(WinXP) Installation, cos sometimes, Setting up an Internet Connection
for the first time using WinXP (when you are used to w9x) can be a bit
different.
Can you remind us (or tell us if you haven't already) What sort of
Internet Connection it is?
Is it a Dial Up Modem Connection?
Thus using the Modem Hardware in the Machine, which means that WinXP
found the Hardware OK & had the right Drivers for it.
Or is it an ADSL Modem Connection?
& if so, is it a USB ADSL Modem or what?
Or do you use a Router of some kind?
(Or Cable Modem)?
In which case, all that's needed is a plain & simple, bog-standard,
ordinary NIC - Network Interface Card (Ethernet) with the appropriate
Cable.
WinXP has Drivers for almost all NICs that are in use these days
(& also many older ones) & an Ethernet Internet Connection doesn't
need all the Faffing around, setting up the Modem & ISP Details,
such as Phone Number & Username/PassWord etc.
>... And of the System Commander multi boot screen (which didn't work)
> there is no sign which is for the moment a relief.
Well, someone like Jeff Gaines is prolly the one to help you get all
that System Commander Boot Manager Faffing around sorted out!
:-)
> So that is the good news and I am of course much pleased.
& so you should be!!!
You "done well"!
:-)
>... But with the opening up of the great new vistas of xp
Nah...
:-)
"Vista" isn't out yet!
That's the *next* Version of windoze, *after* WinXP!!!
:-)
>... of which I am completely ignorant my mind runs on to a new list
>of problems I realise I know nothing about and which I hope my
> advisors will help me with.
& at that point I will finish this Reply & Reply separately to the
next bits...
:-)
--
pmj
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