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2006-11-04 16:45:39
Navyholdi99
Member
+4|6937|Virginia Beach, VA
Hey all...quick question about dual booting.  I have two hard drives...each with XP pro on them.  One I use only for gaming...so no other apps are on it unless they are needed for the games.  The second drive is the one I use for everything else...email, internet...work...etc.  Well...I just reformatted and reinstalled XP on my general use drive and now I don't get the boot up screen on startup that lets me choose which install I want to load.  I had it before the reinstall...but not now.  Any ideas as to why?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks!

- Navyholdi99
2006-11-04 17:49:06
Navyholdi99
Member
+4|6937|Virginia Beach, VA
I did a little more searching on the internet and figured it out.  For those that care...I made a change to the boot.ini file.  When I reinstalled XP on my general use drive...it created a new boot.ini that didn't include the other XP install like the old boot.ini file did...thus no bootup selection screen.  So...I added another line to the boot.ini file that pointed to the other XP install...and now it works like a champ.
2006-11-04 21:07:01
slicknic
Member
+145|7078
could u show me that site? or what it is i add to it.
2006-11-04 21:56:52
younggun
Member
+28|7096
So you're dual booting with 2 copies of XP Pro? Why not just use one OS but only have gaming and stuff on one drive and general use on the other. Saves the dual boot.

Makes no sense to me really...
2006-11-05 01:46:19
CrazeD
Member
+368|7125|Maine

younggun wrote:

So you're dual booting with 2 copies of XP Pro? Why not just use one OS but only have gaming and stuff on one drive and general use on the other. Saves the dual boot.

Makes no sense to me really...
He's doing it so his gaming drive is strictly for gaming, no crap what-so-ever.

Then his "general use" drive can have music, programs, crap, whatever he wants.


I was thinking about doing this awhile too, but I figured the game drive would get cluttered anyway because I'm lazy.
2006-11-05 09:49:53
Navyholdi99
Member
+4|6937|Virginia Beach, VA

CrazeD wrote:

younggun wrote:

So you're dual booting with 2 copies of XP Pro? Why not just use one OS but only have gaming and stuff on one drive and general use on the other. Saves the dual boot.

Makes no sense to me really...
He's doing it so his gaming drive is strictly for gaming, no crap what-so-ever.

Then his "general use" drive can have music, programs, crap, whatever he wants.


I was thinking about doing this awhile too, but I figured the game drive would get cluttered anyway because I'm lazy.
I like the dual boot for that reason.  I found that after awhile...with so many programs installed on my system...my gaming would suffer a little.  So I created the dual boot option so when I game...I don't have to worry about extra stuff that might bog down my gaming.

And this is what my boot.ini file looks like...

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Everyday Use" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Gaming" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

My Gaming drive has two partitions and the OS is loaded on the 2nd one.  As you can guess...you'll get an error if it isn't pointed to the right partition. 

Hope that helps Slicknic.

- Navyholdi99
2006-11-05 09:51:39
Naughty_Om
Im Ron Burgundy?
+355|7085|USA
heres how i work it. i have 2 Hard drives. One has my general use shit. the other is bf2. only one drive has XP installesd, but the otehr can Acess the other. saves the time of a dual boot. but i sitll have the safety of a crash free system.
2006-11-05 10:00:09
Navyholdi99
Member
+4|6937|Virginia Beach, VA
True...but one of the other benefits I see is shorter load time.  There are far fewer processes running in the background and it makes a difference since less resources are taken up.  You can certainly work one OS and just write a marco that closes the processes that don't matter...but I like knowing that only the bare essentials are running in the background on my gaming bootup.

Whatever works to increase performance is obviously what matters...I just like this setup more.
2006-11-06 05:39:27
misconfiguration
GURU
+86|6848|Indianapolis, IN
That's not dual booting, you just need to put NTFS on your secondary HDD, and set the jumpers as slave. Hook it up VIA Master IDE channel and boot it up. When you go to My Computer you'll see the volume listed.

 

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