At 01:46 PM 6/16/2008, you wrote:
Thanks for the info, I'll just have to see how many of my applications
make it over, I know that some may and others probably won't.
Probably the best bet would be a clean wipe but somehow I alway manage
to wipe out something I wanted to keep....
Steve
You shouldn't loose anything. XP only needs to share three boot files
on your C drive. Everything else for the second XP install should be
installed on another partition. During install just point it to your
new clean partition and everything else is automatic. You can even
set it up to share your pagefile.sys if you use one.
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Winterlight
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are asking, how will XP do with a dual XP boot, then the answer is
> fine. I have been installing duplicate OS installs since NT4. I put the
> system files on C and XP1 and XP2 on D and E. Windows handles the dual boot
> just fine. It is a very useful setup for a number of reasons. And there is
> no better way to troubleshoot.
>
>
> At 04:40 AM 6/16/2008, you wrote:
>>
>> The basis of this is that I have an Audiophile 2496 sound card and the
>> driver does not really support MCE. Of course the basic way to go
>> about this would be to wipe the C drive clean and just install XP
>> (non-MCE). But the question is, how well does XP do with more than
>> one copy of itself installed? If, for example, I were to install XP
>> (non-MCE) on this MCE system, first, would it set up a boot menu and
>> 2nd, would it find my apps and use them?
>>
>> Just speculating & it would save a lot of time reinstalling stuff.....
>>
>> Thanks....Steve
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