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| Thread ID: 52045 | 2004-12-08 00:42:00 | Dual OS - how to enable? | fergie (424) | Press F1 |
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| 300709 | 2004-12-08 04:55:00 | I'd just try the BIOS options. It is possible to do it with the loader. The file has to be edited exactly right, although it's not usually fatal if it's done wrong. But ... ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 300710 | 2004-12-08 04:58:00 | Dual-booting with identical os's seems a bit strange. Any particular reason? |
Raikyn (6293) | ||
| 300711 | 2004-12-08 05:00:00 | Because it's there? ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 300712 | 2004-12-08 05:56:00 | Go into your systems original OS and find the boot.ini file in C: edit it to include the second OS on the other drive. You will get the option to boot the alternative windows just after the BIOS splash screen. With some luck it might actually start up and may stay up long enough for you do load the correct drivers for the current hardware and disable the old. Most probably though, it'll cause too many problems as mentioned. An emulator might work like VMware, but I don't know too much about them. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 300713 | 2004-12-08 05:57:00 | Forgot to mention, your best option for success would be to start the alternative OS in safe mode, ie, running off Windows drivers by and large. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 300714 | 2004-12-08 06:30:00 | Before trying to dual boot, you must get the old drive into a state where it will boot cleanly in the new comp. by doing a repair on it to load the appropriate drivers, as mentioned by GF. The simple method outlined in this website works ok. www.brienposey.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 300715 | 2004-12-08 06:49:00 | Thanks 4 all the help guys, really appreciate it. But i just changed over the boot HDD in the bios - and it just restarts when it gets into windows. Its all ok tho - the only reason i asked was i wanted to get all my emails from outlook, i set up Outlook Express on this system - but there were some older ones i wanted. BUt it will be ok, i've got a new motherboard coming, so as soon as thats back, my #1 system will be back up and running. Thanks again. Alex |
fergie (424) | ||
| 300716 | 2004-12-08 19:20:00 | fergie I know its late but a couple of days ago I posted a link to a floppy boot disk thats acts as boot loader you can select which device to boot from including cdrom (overcomes this limitaion on older machines) heres the link SMB (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) |
beama (111) | ||
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