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Jun 16, 2006, 04:36 PM
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Have win.xp home-SP2.pent 4,1.6.40g HD, 512 ram.a2nd-HD, 100GIG.Idid clean install of xp then useing norton ghost cloned it over to 2nd HD.Also have partition comander to give doul boot,iwould like to save c:drive as a back up.useing my d: 100 g.for every day use. the problem i have is when i down load soft ware @things to D;hd.it also goe's on to c:I would like to keep them seperate if that is possable.I am new to this and am trying to learn how this is done.I thought the two drives would be on there own.Iwill appreciate any help you can give me on this., IS there a diffren't way to boot to the drive's?OR IS THIS NORMAL? A noobe
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Jun 16, 2006, 06:59 PM
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Pay to call ScottGem for advice ($.75/min) | Why would you want to do this? Frankly, it doesn't make sense. Its one thing to dual boot different OSes. But I see no advantage to dual booting the same OS. I would leave the C drive just for the OS and use Ghost to cloen it as a backup. Then partition the other drive to reserve one part for data files and the other for programs. |
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Jun 17, 2006, 04:52 AM
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| i would like to have a up to date back up incase one drive fails,it may not make sense,but i would like to know how to fix this problem! | |
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Jun 17, 2006, 05:33 AM
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Pay to call ScottGem for advice ($.75/min) | You should have an up-to-date backup. I always do, but you are going about it the wrong way. Since you have Norton Ghost, you can create an image file to store either on the second drive or on removeable media. What you are trying to do does not give you what you want. | |
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Jul 26, 2006, 05:41 PM
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| answers don't address problem:dual boot;IF you can help me on this i would appreciae itvery much. xbill | |
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Jul 27, 2006, 12:58 AM
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| In order to have two xp systems booting together, I suggest you wipe one of your hard drives (D) and re-install XP onto this. Just boot with your windows CD and install XP to a separate location (D  the installer should then give you two boot options on startup one for the existing C: installation and one for the D:
Be aware though, that you can only have one primary boot partition on your system and if C: fails the boot menu will probably not appear.
Personally, I agree with Scott on the issue, it is easier to ghost an image of C: onto your D: drive and restore this to C: if C: gets messed up! | |
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Jul 27, 2006, 06:50 AM
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Pay to call ScottGem for advice ($.75/min) | The issue here is that the solution to your stated problem is not the solution you seem to want. If you are looking to have a backup in case of drive failure, then dual booting is not the answer. Dual booting is to allow one to have different operating systems on the same machine.
What you are trying to do is NOT going to work in my opinion. But doing what you claim to want to do, is easy to do if you take our advice. | |
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Jul 27, 2006, 07:30 AM
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| Thanks for your replys i will let you know if this works .BILL | |
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Jul 27, 2006, 07:58 AM
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| You do realise that the second copy of XP will have to be set up separately, none of the programs will be installed – it is effectively a completely different installation.
If you want redundancy for your hard disk installation the way to do this is to create a Mirror drive. Many new SATA systems will do this now but you can buy a mirror system for older IDE drives. This is normally referred to as a raid card. | |
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Jul 27, 2006, 09:07 AM
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| I'm not 100% sure that just cloning XP to another hard drive will work anyway. Wouldn't there be problems with the activation? Check this page out for example: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ctivation.mspx
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Microsoft Product Activation is an anti-piracy technology designed to verify that software products have been legitimately licensed. This aims to reduce a form of piracy known as casual copying. Activation also helps protect against hard drive cloning | So what you want to do xBill might even be impossible (as well as not the best solution as Scott & Stu have already pointed out) | |
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