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Solve : Dual Booting WinXP & WinXP? |
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Answer» If the 2nd install of XP was not done with the 1st install in place no bootloader in the world is going to help you... If the 2nd install of XP was not done with the 1st install in place no bootloader in the world is going to help you... I'm not sure where you are coming from here... I just did an install of XP when only one HDD was present on the system.. I then removed that drive and PUT a different HDD on the system, installed XP, Mastered one HDD and Slaved the other... Then I edited the boot.ini file on the BOOTABLE HDD (the one set first in CMOS), restarted, and I got my DUAL boot options..(boot.ini file appeared) But what if you have them as masters? Sorry dont mean too but kind of getting an answer too not that ...How can you have both PATA drives set as MASTERS on an IDE chain and expect them to work? What exactly do you mean, squall? edit: oh did you mean, "what if they are both SATA"? don't know, but I would bet it would work the same as if they were PATA............with the exception of being able to master and slave themYou can set two PATA drives as master as long as they are on different IDE controllers. For example I had a computer with one drive set as master and the optical drive set as slave on IDE controller 0 and the other hard drive was also set as master on controller 1.Quote from: blockHEAD on June 17, 2009, 11:13:08 PM I'm not sure where you are coming from here... I just did an install of XP when only one HDD was present on the system.. I then removed that drive and put a different HDD on the system, installed XP, Mastered one HDD and Slaved the other... Then I edited the boot.ini file on the bootable HDD (the one set first in CMOS), restarted, and I got my dual boot options..(boot.ini file appeared) Not sure what you mean either... I'm suprised it worked for you but Windows cannot be explained in any sense of logic. When Windows is installed it writes certain files to the root of the C: drive....no matter what flavor or how many instances of it you have installed or how many drives/partitions.... This is the only way it knows how to behave and/or choose boot options... But glad to hear it worked for you.Sorry to jack this but I figured this would settle ALOT of confusion too. I have an IDE card an a SATA drive. I have too have one connected to the on board IDE but I'm just useing the master on the card which add's two IDE connectors. Total I have four drives possibly one died cause it was bad an I hoped that I could of got it to work. Patio it was a it works or it wont thing.Quote from: squall_01 on June 19, 2009, 05:23:31 AM Sorry to jack this but I figured this would settle alot of confusion too. I have an IDE card an a SATA drive. I have too have one connected to the on board IDE but I'm just useing the master on the card which add's two IDE connectors. Total I have four drives possibly one died cause it was bad an I hoped that I could of got it to work. Patio it was a it works or it wont thing. no hijacking threads what exactly are you trying to ACCOMPLISH squall, your goal is not clear to me.. I installed a PCI SATA card & attached the drive, it shows up in Windows but I can't boot off it. I tried installing Windows again but the drive can't be seen by Windows CD. The SATA card driver is on a CD, so how can the driver be installed with no OS present? Early on in the Setup process at the bottom of the screen you will see a prompt saying "press F6 to install additional drivers"....press F6 and then point XP to the location of the SATA controller drivers....I pressed F6 to install the Silicon Image driver for the SATA HD from a floppy. I then tried installing the driver for the SATA card by removing the Windows CD & inserting the manufacturers mini CD but Windows kept searching the Floppy drive. I thought of transferring the drivers to a Floppy Disk but there are many folders containing several ZIP files on the CD. I searched the Web for drivers but couldn't find any, possibly because the card (MY-Link) is generic. |
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