Trying to set up a multi boot system

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badgerer

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Hi,

This will be two copies of XP, one on each drive. One drive for gaming, internet etc, the other for home recording. I've got one copy installed on the C drive and that works fine. I've just gone ahead and whacked the XP cd in again, booted it up and checked a box along the way specifying that i want to select which drive it is installed in.

The computer restarts and it boots into a DOS setup program, but says it cannot find any hard drives on my computer! I have two...the copy of XP I have installed finds both hard drives, so why can't the Windows installation program find them?

Cheers
 
I took the XP CD out so I could just boot my computer up as normal into the XP I already had installed, and I've got a blue screen...


A problem has been deteceted and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7CAE524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x0000000000)



Whats wrong? :o
 
You're confusing the computer. When you install windows, you make that your primary boot device, but if you have two windows doesn't know which one to choose. Why would you have it setup like that anyway. Just keep your second drive as a file drive or something of the sort to keep your work in one area
 
you can install XP on each if you want to by only connecting one HD at a time, that will definitly work, then changing your boot.ini file to give you a choice which XP to start up, but why not just make 2 accounts in one copy of XP its the same thing.
 
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