I have - with the great help of all that replied to my last messages - been able to get two xp systems on the same HD and go back and forth between the two to boot.

Question#1

When I boot from H:
(c: of course was the original system partition)

Partition Majic says that c: is "active" and I am unable to hide it when having booted from h:

However, MS manage says that h: is "boot"

I want to hide c: when booted from h:


Question#2
When I attempt to install bootmajic it only gives me the option to install it on drive d: which I do not want to. I want to install it on c: system partition.

Thank you very much for your great helpForget drive letters, they change when booting from one partition to the other. Which ever one boots, is "C". The others, you can define.

Lets call them Partition #1 and Partition #2. Both must be Primary, not Logical Partitions. Install BootMagic on #1. You can then hide #1 from #2 (when you boot to #2, you can't see #1), but not #2 from #1. Change the volume labels, so you'll know which one you're booted into, call #1 WINXP#1, call #2 WINXP#2.Hi,

When I use Partition Majic to copy a partition it only makes it an extended partition. Is an extended partition a logical partition?

I would use Image For Dos but it seems to only create an image COMPRESSED...

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Yes. Extended partition is a primary partition and it can contain many logical partitions. Primary bootable partitions NEED to start within the 1024 cylinder boundary.

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Image for dos creates a compressed image. The size of the partition copied is much larger than the size of the image saved. If I made an image of the same size I COULD just MAKE it active and boot from it...