issues in two xp installlations

subdee

subdee

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i[font=verdana, arial, helvetica]'m about to install XP on a different partition on the disk that already contains an XP installation. what major issues should i be aware of before i do that?[/font]
 
Accidently formating the wrong partition. It may sound stupid, but I've done this once before with partitions that were about the same size. Though it shouldn't be a problem if you pay attention. The only reason you should have problems is if you were to install it on the same partition sometimes that screws shit up. Otherwise you should be :cool:. It would be a differn't story if you wanted to install any operating system older than Xp. you would have to install the older os/oses first
 
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really? so if i wanted to install Windows 2000, i'd have to reinstall xp? what's the reason? mbr issues?

either way i did it and it all works smoothly. now i'm happy with 3 different OS's on my pc. (well the two xp's are not different but in essence they are !!!);)

thanks.
 
subdee said:
really? so if i wanted to install Windows 2000, i'd have to reinstall xp? what's the reason? mbr issues?

either way i did it and it all works smoothly. now i'm happy with 3 different OS's on my pc. (well the two xp's are not different but in essence they are !!!);)

thanks.
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Just out of curiousity, what advantages does that provide??? :confused:
 
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subdee said:
really? so if i wanted to install Windows 2000, i'd have to reinstall xp? what's the reason? mbr issues?

either way i did it and it all works smoothly. now i'm happy with 3 different OS's on my pc. (well the two xp's are not different but in essence they are !!!);)

thanks.
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Yea that would be my guess

Grasshopper said:
just out of curiousity, what advantages does that provide???
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Example: A company has accounting software which costed them about lets say 5000 dollars. Right after they buy the software Windows Xp comes out and they want to use this new os, but their software won't work on it.
So instead of wasting that 5000 smackaroos they set it up so they can use both. Now why anyone would want to do this I don't know cause it would seem that it would be a big hassle to keep restarting you system everytime you need to use one os or the other. Does this answer your question???
 
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hehee that's true.

in my case, my original installation is setup just the way i like it for everyday use. i installed programs for all users when i was asked. i needed a fresh installation to do my music production on without any extra crap. also, i wanted to try sp2 (i've heard many strange things about it) and also wanted to try the custom installation disk i made with nlite.

does THIS answer your question?:P
 
subdee said:
really? so if i wanted to install Windows 2000, i'd have to reinstall xp? what's the reason? mbr issues?

either way i did it and it all works smoothly.
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The thing is that earlier versions of Windows have less smart installers and they can set default its own loader that can ignore other OS. It may cause different problems or may not cause. As to WinXP it will allow recognizing all Windows family.
So you are lucky, guy :D
 
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