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

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about using Boot Magic - from the people that do Partition Magic -
doesn't that allow you to set up different partitions and selectively boot
to them and have drive letter assignments that then don't clash?

Might be worth a look.

I think it actually comes with Partition Magic IIRC...

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Paul Gordon
> Sent: 20 January 2006 10:11
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Anyway to install XP on same PC quickly and
> easily?
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> 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?
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> Hi,
>
> I have 2 versions of Win XP installed on my PC in seperate partitions
> (with a XP added boot menu).
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> I want to do add another in a new partition on the same PC.
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> 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.
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> Ideally i want a copy of my main XP, i use all the time, and install
> quickly onto another partition?
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> 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
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> Regards
>
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> Gary
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