You've got the whole concept of a removable drive wrong. You don't install the OS to the removable, only your data.
At this point you're playing with fire, as I don't think the 2nd install is going to come off nearly as easy as you think it is. If there's any important data on that drive, I'd just buy two new drives and install an OS on one here and one there and those will be fixed drives (drives are cheap). Now you can plug and unplug your removable without wreaking havoc, and you can just ignore the OS's on it. On 10/10/07, jsutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi and help > recently i went to illinois with my hard drive containing win200pro. i > installed it in my computer there but i stupidly forgot to prepare it for > the transfer to the different machine, i wouldn't run. > i had the win2000 cd with me so i installed a second win2000 on the hard > drive, it worked. > now, back in d.c. i want to remove the illinois version. > i plan to rewrite boot.ini to show only the d.c. o.s.and remove winnt' the > illinois version, keeping winnt( no prime) the d.c. version of that file. > i should then be back to the way it was before the trip??? > the question: is there anything else that must/should be done to get me > back > to the way it was? > next summer i will remember to prepare the drive before leaving. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
