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Error by my lecturer, or a way around this....
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Posted by: demon_horse
I just started a course in systems support, and the first thing we had to do was prepare a caddied hard drive with 4 partitions, and install Windows XP.
This went fine, however after installing XP, we were then told we needed to also install a version of either Windows 2000 or 2000 Advanced Server on a different partition, so we can demonstrate Dual Booting. This installation doesn't work from inside XP (it won't even give us the setup option for an older version) so we tried booting the installation from the CD. This did work, however it appeared to damage the XP installation, which meant we had to reinstall XP again and waste valuable time. This is all practice for a full assessment assignment we will be given at the end of the first unit.
Is there any way to avoid this, or am I right in thinking we should have just partitioned, then added 2000 before XP?
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
Using fdisk or I suppose partition manager, or whatever, you have to mark the partition as inactive so that whatever OS you are trying to install does not try to install there.
Posted by: demon_horse
just got back from tonights class, and it turns out for the assessment assignment, we will be installing o/s in logical order (98, then a version/variant of 2000 and only THEN will we goto XP). Of course it would have been handy to start our first 'practice' run this way, but the lecturer only had XP in the first lesson.
Basically for now, I have on a seperate hard drive which I formatted, partitioned and installed tonight just incase I need it.
However I am interested in this other option, if only for my own information.
Making the partition inactive, this would keep the data on it intact?
I'd use fdisk to reactivate it too I take it? would I have to do that in dos mode or would it be usable from inside win2k?
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
If I recall correctly, (and this is back from managing OS/2 and windows on one machine without a bootloader like we have today I have GRUB for example), you go into admin tools and look for the disk drive manager. I have not done this in so long that I do not remember anymore details though.
Posted by: hwm54112
Data will ,remain intact
If you use fdisk to deactivate, you must use fdisk to reactivate
It is a DOS function
What you're doing is lowlevel disk management/setup operations. It is step 2 after fromating a drive and is OS independent. Given the course you are taking, you should do it in dos, not using partiton management software. You need to learn the basics, not necesaarily a prettier way of doing it
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