RE: [OT] Anyway to install XP on same PC quickly and easily?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you'll find what you want to do will be pretty difficult to
achieve... - If you clone a copy of your main XP installation onto another
partition, it will then be running off a different drive letter, and it
won't like that at all.... You'll find that absolute path names, including
drive letters are tattooed all over the registry and you'll get *loads* of
errors about things not being found etc... (either that, or it will find
it's way back to the copy on the other partition so you won't actually be
running independently of that original build at all...)

One way round this might be to use a different boot loader which switches
your active partitions around, so that whichever partition you boot from
appears as the C:\ drive... Alternatively there may be some software
available which will scan the registry and make all the changes you need to
update the drive letters to accomodate moving an XP build to a different
partition. (I think I have a vague memory of seeing something like this a
few years ago...)

HTH

Paul G.




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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of Gary
Sent: Fri 20/01/2006 09:13
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Anyway to install XP on same PC quickly and easily?



Hi,

I have 2 versions of Win XP installed on my PC in seperate partitions
(with a XP added boot menu).

I want to do add another in a new partition on the same PC.

The only way i have found to to do this is to install from CD as
normal but this takes 50 mins then theres all the setting up of menus
and all the software i use, i have to add.

Ideally i want a copy of my main XP, i use all the time, and install
quickly onto another partition?

I tried this with Trueimage (which takes an image of a complete
installation) but this failed, i think because of the "boot menu in
XP", where you select the operating system to use. I tried this 6
months ago, so my memory of the problem may not be right?

Any suggestions


Regards


Gary