[TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive

[Rodney Radford]

Actually, with partition magic, it is possible to use their bootloader to run multiple versions of Windows at the same time, each installed on a different partition. I have a tri-boot machine at home now with DOS 6.1, Win 98, and Win XP, but I have also had WIN/NT, WIN/2K, etc on the same machine (very helpful when using the machine for driver testing across multiple platforms).


-----Original Message-----
>From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net>
>Sent: Apr 6, 2006 4:05 PM
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive
>
>On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, matt1027 wrote:
>
>> My question today is about installing WinXP on the same 
>> hard drive as Mandriva.  I have a dual boot system with 
>> Win98 on the small (8GB) hda and Mandriva on the 80GB, 
>> hdb, with LILO in MBR of hda.  I need to add WinXP on hdb
>
>I'm under the impression that you cannot have two windows 
>installations on the same machine. Each expects to boot off 
>drive C: and will deliberately corrupt/refomat the other 
>installation. At least that's the way it's been with 
>previous pairs of windows (W2k, w98). I couldn't get it to 
>work anyhow.
>
>Joe
>
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