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TheeKiller
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"DuAl"(MY bad) Booting
« on: September 04, 2004, 08:46:25 PM »
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Ok so i want to duAl boot my computer. Im not sure what set up to use. Just for information I want 1 harddrive for my games-movies-music-etc... , the other for video editing.
How do I run the set up. ie Primary, slave. Or do I go Primary, secondary?
Also is it possible to run two xp's. So 1 on the one harddrive and another on the other harddrive?
or do i not know what im talking about 
anyhelp?
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Re:Duel Booting
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2004, 10:01:44 PM »
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duAl
can't help you with anything but the grammar, sorry :-p
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Re:Duel Booting
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2004, 11:48:43 PM »
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lmao! fixed!
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Re:"DuAl"(MY bad) Booting
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2004, 11:51:10 PM »
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Have you tried simply partitioning your HD??? much less hassle
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Re:"DuAl"(MY bad) Booting
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2004, 01:01:35 AM »
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Thre is pretty much no [sane] reason to dual boot two copies of XP on the same machine. I cna't imagine why you would ever do such a strange thing. In the old days, people used to dual boot Win95 and NT, since almost all the desktop stuff was on 95 and the hard corde workstation stuff was on NT, but nowdays there's just no reason to dual boot to versions of Windows. WIndows and linux? Yes. WinXP and WinXP? Man, that's just a huge waste of time really.
If all you want is double storage, there's no reason you can't have more than one hard drive in your computer. Anything after Win2k will recognize it and mount it automatically. Then you can use it like one HUGE floppy disk. And actually, putting ALL your personal data on a separate drive makes it an absolute sinch to reinstall the OS without losing your data.
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Re:"DuAl"(MY bad) Booting
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2004, 06:30:14 AM »
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Yeah what I do is have one drive for general usage and that has XP on it. But the secondary drive i put stuff on that I will always want to keep - like mp3's, videos, digital photos etc. Then if i ever need to format the drive with XP on I can copy over the stuff from there that I need to keep, like documents etc before i do the reinstall of windows.
That way you can easily back up everything you need quite easily if you ever need a serious fix to a windows problem.
As Porter said I cant think of a good reason to dual boot with the same OS.
I would go with a nice fast drive for the main one (the one with XP on) presumably this would also be the one you'd do video edditing on. I would probably put games on the same one - but it depends on space etc (just my personal opinion).
Then the only real limitation on the other drive would be space because with mp3s, videos etc speed isn't really such an issue.
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Re:"DuAl"(MY bad) Booting
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2004, 11:50:00 AM »
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To install dual boot you just need Two HDD's. You don't even need physical HDD's at that. You could technically install on the same drive, but I wouldn't recommend that. Create two partitions on your main drive, and install XP on both of them. When you boot it will have the two names
Windows XP Pro (0)
Windows XP Pro (1)
Or something to that effect. This is the same proceedure to dual boot with nearly anything else (9x doesn't dual boot, but if you install it first then install an NT version it will dual boot it).
Now having said that, I might tend to agree with what was said earlier. You might not want to dual boot XP, you might just want to create a new user account. If you make sure you install everything to the user account that you are currently logged into, it shouldn't cause that many problems. I started doing that at first, but now I just my one loggin.
If you are doing video editing, and you are not using the network, I might suggest unplugging your computer from your network/internet and removing all firewalls/spyware blockers/anti-virus until your done. Those can take up alot of CPU and RAM (which is bad when you want speed). When your done with the video, just restart, its all back, no fuss, no muss.
Out of curiosity, what are you doing with the video editing?
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Re:"DuAl"(MY bad) Booting
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2004, 12:20:17 PM »
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| If you are doing video editing, and you are not using the network, I might suggest unplugging your computer from your network/internet and removing all firewalls/spyware blockers/anti-virus until your done. Those can take up alot of CPU and RAM (which is bad when you want speed). When your done with the video, just restart, its all back, no fuss, no muss. |
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Heh, or you could use a Mac and Final Cut and not have to worry about rebooting for anything. 
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