2 copies of Windows XP

I have two hard drives, and am wondering can I install a second copy on the second hard drive. The first hard drive has an upgraded version, but is full of bugs. So I'm hoping with a fresh copy it should work fine. Whats the best way of going about installing XP on the second hard drive.

Thanks,
Paul

 

You can do it two ways:

1) Boot into your buggy copy of XP and run the install from CD. When it gets to the part of the text-mode installation, simply point the install to your second hard drive.

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2) Boot to your Windows XP CD-ROM and point the installation to the second drive the same way as above.



Once the second copy of XP is installed you will get a boot menu at system startup asking you which OS you want to boot into. In your case both options will say "Microsoft Windows XP <version> ". If you want to change the text of the boot menu to be able to tell which one your booting to, go to your boot drive (C and edit the boot.ini file the way you want the menu to look.

 

Thanks alot.

Paul

 

If it didnt work list your buggy errors

I think you may have problems with that till you 1st fix you original errors XP is fussy but I have'nt knowen anyone that can't
make it work. So post your errors if you need to good liuck

 

Yep got some problems.

If I try installing in XP, I choose new installation and it works ok, and reboots into the dos version, but when it asks where to install to, all it has is my current c:\windows copy of XP, and I can't choose the new drive partition. I tried making the partition active in partition magic, but it still won't find it.

When I try to install in dos it either takes AGES to setup the actual installation then fails saying a certain keyboard file cannot be found, or it says the EULA (end user licence agreement) cannot be found, whatever that means. The error depends on how I try to install through dos.

Any ideas?

Paul