Should we expect the same results by using two separate hard drives instead
of just separate partitions?
Thanks,
Bill Kellum
"J Tsuzuki" wrote:
> Thank you very much for providing information on this subject.
>
> With your helpful information what I did is as follows:
> 1) I loaded Win XP Home supplied by Toshiba in the form of "Recovery
> Disk". This CD gives no choice but to install the OS using the entire HD
> (one partition.) It also offered no choice in file system but NTFS.
> 2) I resized the installed partition to about half of the HD capacity
> using a partition manager (In my case 7Tools Partition Manager). This
> step was based upon previous contribution of Ron Martell to help Terry's
> posting to this NG on December 15, 2004.
> This change resulted in a few error messages at reboot, but, at the
> fourth reboot, dust settled and the Win XP Home worked apparently
> normally using the reduced HD space.
> 3) Then I inserted the Win XP Pro (Japanese version) and proceded for
> installation. It recognized the previously installed XP Home and asked
> where to be installed and with which file system. I naturally selected
> the remaining unpartitioned space and, whith some hesitancy, I chose
> NTFS. Then a new partition was created using the remaining space,
> formated and installation continued. The intermediate reboot already
> showed recognition of the other XP.
> 4) When finished, I got the dual boot system which is same as dual boot
> with different versions of Windows.
> 5) I now know there is no restriction for dual boot in terms of version
> of Windows and type of file systems.
>
> My experience should be helpful to people who desire to set up
> dual/multi boot without wiping out an already installed OS, that is, by
> resizing the used HD space. This is in contrast to the "official way" by
> MS which requires prepartitioning. This should be especially helpful if
> one happens to own Toshiba Satellite.
>
> Thank you very very much to all responding to my question with helpful
> information.
> J Tsuzuki
>
>
>
Hi,
It should be the same regardless of whether you use two partitions on the
same drive or two different physical drives. Keep in mind that no matter
where you install Windows, the system files (those that boot the
installation, ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini) will be placed on the root of
the active drive.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"BILL KELLUM" <BILLKELLUM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:33B55528-27F6-4AEE-9ED0-E6F3A05C7936@microsoft.com...
> Should we expect the same results by using two separate hard drives
> instead
> of just separate partitions?
> Thanks,
> Bill Kellum
>
> "J Tsuzuki" wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much for providing information on this subject.
>>
>> With your helpful information what I did is as follows:
>> 1) I loaded Win XP Home supplied by Toshiba in the form of "Recovery
>> Disk". This CD gives no choice but to install the OS using the entire HD
>> (one partition.) It also offered no choice in file system but NTFS.
>> 2) I resized the installed partition to about half of the HD capacity
>> using a partition manager (In my case 7Tools Partition Manager). This
>> step was based upon previous contribution of Ron Martell to help Terry's
>> posting to this NG on December 15, 2004.
>> This change resulted in a few error messages at reboot, but, at the
>> fourth reboot, dust settled and the Win XP Home worked apparently
>> normally using the reduced HD space.
>> 3) Then I inserted the Win XP Pro (Japanese version) and proceded for
>> installation. It recognized the previously installed XP Home and asked
>> where to be installed and with which file system. I naturally selected
>> the remaining unpartitioned space and, whith some hesitancy, I chose
>> NTFS. Then a new partition was created using the remaining space,
>> formated and installation continued. The intermediate reboot already
>> showed recognition of the other XP.
>> 4) When finished, I got the dual boot system which is same as dual boot
>> with different versions of Windows.
>> 5) I now know there is no restriction for dual boot in terms of version
>> of Windows and type of file systems.
>>
>> My experience should be helpful to people who desire to set up
>> dual/multi boot without wiping out an already installed OS, that is, by
>> resizing the used HD space. This is in contrast to the "official way" by
>> MS which requires prepartitioning. This should be especially helpful if
>> one happens to own Toshiba Satellite.
>>
>> Thank you very very much to all responding to my question with helpful
>> information.
>> J Tsuzuki
>>
>>
>>
