Hi all,
Could do with some help as I have tried for days to get it to work but my brain is now sore and have reached the end of my teather!!
Now here is where iam up to.
1:Installed XP Home, fresh install onto my laptop with 1 hard disc.
2:Installed Partition magic 8.0.
3:Split my hard drive into 2 partitions of equal size using partition magics install another operating system wizard.
4:Installed XP Pro onto second partition with Partition magic also.
5:Tried to modify boot.ini file to this-
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
Now this only works if you are booting the current operating system that is set to active and it will not boot to the hidden partition. The only way I can switch is by using the PQboot for windows(in PM tools) and select the other partition to active on reboot. This is a bit of a pain and I also would rather stay away from the option of another programme like bootmagic at startup.
Both systems boot up fine but now I am stuck .
Could any one help with this little problem all i want is dos to be able to boot up both systems other wise I will put my head under this guys hammer :knock:
Could do with some help as I have tried for days to get it to work but my brain is now sore and have reached the end of my teather!!
Now here is where iam up to.
1:Installed XP Home, fresh install onto my laptop with 1 hard disc.
2:Installed Partition magic 8.0.
3:Split my hard drive into 2 partitions of equal size using partition magics install another operating system wizard.
4:Installed XP Pro onto second partition with Partition magic also.
5:Tried to modify boot.ini file to this-
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
Now this only works if you are booting the current operating system that is set to active and it will not boot to the hidden partition. The only way I can switch is by using the PQboot for windows(in PM tools) and select the other partition to active on reboot. This is a bit of a pain and I also would rather stay away from the option of another programme like bootmagic at startup.
Both systems boot up fine but now I am stuck .
Could any one help with this little problem all i want is dos to be able to boot up both systems other wise I will put my head under this guys hammer :knock: