B00ting from 2 hardrives

in order to do what i want to do with Ng i have to pay $60...
i copied, then transferred 2 main files to the other hdd, that wont work?

can i buy something that can help me? from a store?


thanks
 
Motoxrdude said:
Programs don't really work like that. When you install a program, it modifies your registries as well as program files. Make a backup of your registries as well, and when you install xp again or /we, just add those registries to your new registries, and the programs should work.
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g4m3rof1337 is running two different versions of Windows with different system registries.

Motoxrdude said:
Just get norton ghost and do it that way. Much easier.
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tlarkin said:
I use this free software to clone windows clients all the time

http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html

http://drbl.sourceforge.net/
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The idea here is not to clone XP Pro to an XP Home OSed drive. The best way to proceed there is to first create one or more temp folders on the 250gb XP Home drive for receiving the differing file types from the XP Pro drive. Or simply create one main folder like "XP Pro files" and create separate folders in that with one for photos, another for game saves, and so forth.

When going to copy a large amount of files from one drive to another you will want to keep them somewhat organized. When you a temp folder for let's say photos open two explorer windows and first highlight the files you want copied over. When they are all seen blue in color right click on them and choose the "copy" option in the drop down menu.

From there move the mouse cursor over to the other window where you have the receiving folder already opened up to receive them and right click again to choose "paste". You will then see an indicator with a scrolling line shown in minutes that shows how much longer it will take to finish copying those files. You simply repeat this process until all files you want to backup are fully copied from the 500gb to the 250gb drive.

It will take time there and this is why first creating the temp folders helps sort out the different files. You can right click on entire folders and paste them in the other window as one way to make it a little easier. Try a few times for practice to see for yourself to get familiar with it.
 
really there is no good reason to run both windows xp pro and windows xp home unless you are a software developer and need to test things in an enterprise level environment (ie xp pro, log into domains, remote desktop, vpn, etc), then test a different version in a home enviroment. Otherwise they are the exact same OS

He was complaining about paying 60 dollars for a copy of ghost, I was merely pointing out there are free options out there to clone NTFS partitions.

You can also install GRUB if you wanted to and use it as a boot manager for both your windows versions. Though I still fail to grasp why you would want to do this.
 
tlarkin said:
really there is no good reason to run both windows xp pro and windows xp home unless you are a software developer and need to test things in an enterprise level environment (ie xp pro, log into domains, remote desktop, vpn, etc), then test a different version in a home enviroment. Otherwise they are the exact same OS

He was complaining about paying 60 dollars for a copy of ghost, I was merely pointing out there are free options out there to clone NTFS partitions.

You can also install GRUB if you wanted to and use it as a boot manager for both your windows versions. Though I still fail to grasp why you would want to do this.
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You can easily install a "universal" boot loader that will easily load "any" OS into the mbr. I run multiboot here often to get familiar with different OSs as well as having options to run programs that won't otherwise run on one version of Windows or one type of OS in particular. But then I beta test at times for this reason.

There is a slight difference even noticed when gaming between both versions of XP. The Pro version has to offer more backward compatibility for 16bit networking. This is why you will see some msdos files at the root of C if you look there on a XP Pro drive. The main gui is identical between versions however pointing out the lack of differences there.

The idea for copying files from the larger Pro OSed drive to the Home OSed smaller one is primarily to backup and preserve files and still have a working version of Windows running on the system at the same time. It's a smart move to make frequent backups of any important files to start with. If the 500gb primary is hit with a virus or upgraded to Vista the buik of important data is preserved on the second HD.
 
yeah who in the hell uses dos?

Like I said before, extremely pointless to run both xp pro and xp home. Especially if you do not need the enterprise level support xp pro gives. Waste of extra HD space for a kid who plays video games.
 
just so you know the linux one i posted is completely free and can be used with a live CD. It works on NTFS partitions, used it plenty of times myself. In fact just got done imaging about 150 laptops using the drbl solution at my work. We can't afford to pay for a ghost enterprise license since they charge you per a client, and we have about 10,000 computers.
 
if i was shutting down, going into blue screen to go off, and unplugged my sata i guess plug from my backup hdd can that affect it
 
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