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Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
Ah - we've now progressed to giving Opteron penetration up into the mid-range. I'd say we were closer to agreement than I thought, except that what I consider AMD just doesn't have the market presence to push into any market above where the Xeon currently resides. Note that this is more a marketing issue then a

OT: Booting into DOS to run CHKDSK on Win XP
Disconnect all extras, keeping only the necessary devices for booting to the operating system. Concentrate just on getting the machine to boot successfully. Once that happens, the rest of the stuff - extra devices, peripherals - can be added back one device at a time. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User.

Booting into Windows XP prevented by missing or corrupt file
-----Original Message----- From: xxclone@googlegroups.com [mailto:xxclone@googlegroups. com]On Behalf Of Kan Yabumoto Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:40 PM To: xxclone@googlegroups.com Subject: [xxclone] Re: Booting into Windows XP gme wrote: WINDOWS BOOT PROBLEM - MY SETUP: Three physical drives - <snap> 3.

Step-by-Step Downgrade to XP Pro from Vista Business?
Dixonian69 Dixonia...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp general I have two installations of XP on the same partition scroll down to #20 http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#20 "Ron" wrote: After re-installing XP on a new HD, each time I boot up and pass the POST test, I get a black screen

Dual booting (direct into XP)
Vista ignores my max setting for disk space to be used for restore points (as did XP). And, Disk Cleanup does not always free a significant amount of the disk space used by the restore points. So, a quick boot into XP solves the problem. Hehe... didn't expect that as the reply :) Not that I'm an expert in how

booting into mb bios in xp
Ok, so in regards to booting into XP or Vista, let me clarify where I am with that and what it is doing. I have three sata hard drives. Drive 1 = XP OS ( 2 partitiions) Drive 2 - XP Data and Apps ( 2 partitions) Drive 3 = Vista ( 2 partitions) Currently, I have my hard disk boot order in bios, set for drive 1 first

Dual booting and partitions
I'm hoping I can make a tiny active primary "boot partition" on my drive with XP, and use the "recovery console" to create a boot sector and NTLDR setup there - avoiding the re-install. (3) Would I need to first hide the Win98 partition whenever I boot into WinXP? That's what your boot manager is for - when you

Booting into XP
I would like to ( for a short time ) set it up so that my xp installation is still available should I run into any unforseen software issues. However, dual-booting is no longer necessary in most situations. Why not download a Virtual Machine application, such as Microsoft's VirtualPC 2007

Booting into Windows XP Pro
Select Safe Mode and if XP boots up Ok then rt click on MyComputer>select Properties>Advanced>Performance-Settings>Advanced>Virtual Memory-Change. result is the same for administrator Booting into command console and running chkdsk on the drive correct some errors on the drive Any suggestions on how to get into

Booting into DOS
Lee Lord leel...@nyc.rr.com microsoft public windowsxp general I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 with XP installed. I've been booting up directly to windows until I recently installed Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1. Now when I boot I get the Welcome Screen where I have to choose my name to finish signing on.

Booting into DOS when using XP
In a nutshell, the Microsoft way intertwines the OS's by always booting through the *same* partition and then forking to one or the other operating system on different I'm guessing you made the mistake of formatting the new partitions while booted into the old XP. Let us know what boot manager you're using,

Help with upgrading PC and Win XP.
I put the XP CD into the CD-ROM drive. And I made sure that the BIOS selected the CD-ROM drive before the hard disk. But it didn't work. :-( I can see that there will be times when I need to do this. Such as recovering the ability to boot XP despite a corrupted Win98 installation. Should it have worked? Jen.

Definitive guide to dual-booting? (was - Re: So many problems with XP)
Had a little scare in that I could not figure out how to boot back into XP, for some reason I was not given the bootloader option during boot, it just kept booting into Vista. I went in to the bios, and selected the hard drive XP is on as first boot device, saved and exited, and now it boots into XP Pro,

dual or multi-booting XP and ME
MAXX SADE j...@santur.com microsoft public windowsxp customize Hey Guys, I just re-installed my windows, got all my updates, installed all my software and after defragmenting and starting to use my computer....the problem: When I turn on my computer or restart, my windows XP Pro (black screen) fades in then the

Booting to linux on a dual boot with XP || problems..
When I select Windows XP it show Grub as the 2nd level manager but loops back to the grub manager without booting into Windows. It also won't boot 9.1 correctly either. On the other hand, I can get into 9.1 if I select Linux from the initial Lilo menu. Any help here would be appreciated. Thanks Boot into Linux,

booting into mb bios in xp
Tony Hwang drago...@shaw.ca alt os linux suse Brian B. wrote: I recently duel booted Windows XP Professional and Suse 9.2 Professional following the instructions I get this: root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc chainloader +1 The computer just sits at that screen and never goes into Windows.

Cannot log into Windows XP
For some reason now, even with 'welcome screen' selected as the default user scheme, xp boots into desktop using the administrator account. I know it is possible to set up the original configuration, I just cannot remember how !!!! Any comments / suggestions are welcome Frustrated Dave If your goal is to disable

OT: Booting into DOS to run CHKDSK on Win XP
For example: So I don't really want the usual Win98/XP setup of booting the PC into 98 and then having boot.ini prompt me to choose if I want to boot into the 98 or XP partition. That's not what happens at all. Boot.in is a WinNT/2K/XP file. No part of Win98 ever gets loaded at all until after you select it from

XP 'Stalls' after booting and logging in - Help!
Once that is done ME should be installed first into your "C" partition. then XP from within ME as a new install into "D" The XP again into "E" as a new install If I do that with my one 60GB Drive, can I then partition into 3 drives and install in C:XP as Fat 32, ME into D as Fat 32 and XP into E as NTSF?

Dual booting XP machine
One Punch Mickey re...@to.newsgroup comp sys ibm pc games action Tina Brown <tbr...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:tbrown-351453.21483313012003 @news1. news.adelphia.net: There's not much point trying to run it from a DOS floppy if your c: drive is NTFS format, since DOS won't be able to see it.