Posted by Howard Casto on 4, 2001 at 9:46 PM:
In Reply to: here posted by Jakobud on 4, 2001 at 8:55 PM:
Give it a rest Jako.... If you don't like XP fine, but don't toast the poor guy cause you do.... it IS possible to make a dual boot in XP... just like it is in 2000 you just format the drive as normal (minus the /s) and then manually add the files..... The lazy non-dos users don't know you can do this, but you can.
You just have to do as I suggested previously in addition to installing true dos on your extra hd. There are multiple sites which tell you hte necessary nt/dos files you will need... don't sweat it.
BTW XP Rocks! Jump into the 21st century and leave your out-dated os's with it... I've been running it and I LOVE it. It's like 2000 but without the confusing 14 click menu hierarchy system that everybody hates. Oh and btw you can actually play games and use hardware in Xp unlike 2000.
: Well first of all, why in the freaking hell do you have XP? You NEVER buy an OS right when it comes out before it's even proven itself...Wow so many people fall into the Microsoft trap...well this situation sorta sucks for you because in order to make this hard drive dos bootable you have be able to get to a dos prompt, which XP has COMPLETELY done away with! So your pretty much screwed. Sorry. But let say you are able to get this hard drive into a machine that still has a regular version of windows (like 98 or something). Get to a dos prompt first. Then, (lets say your new harddrive is mounted as the D: drive), type:
: format d: /s
: That /s copies the necessary system files to the drive that will make it a bootable dos drive. So get rid of XP and go back to something that you know is better (even though it doesn't look as pretty, which is the reason why 3/4 of the people probably bought it anyways!). Did you know that in benchmarks that have been released this past week it has been proven that Windows 2000 is FASTER than XP? funny
: jakobud