Hey, hoping someone can help me with an issue i'm having dual booting windows xp.
Here's the deal: I've recently reformatted by box and i've partioned my only HDD into two partions using norton partition magic 8. I installed win xp on both partitions but for some reason when i boot up i'm not presented with the option to choose wich partition i'd like to boot to (wich is how i had it set up when i was dual booting two versions of win2k)
Partion magic is supposed to have a tool called "boot magic" that lets me set up the dual booting thing, but bootmagic is grayed out in partion magic.
The two partions are both NTFS, it says in partionmagic that the second partition is "hidden." Also in the second drive letter does not show up in my computer in the partition i'm booted into now. I've read somewhere that the two versions of XP the computer name has to be different (if so how do i change the computer name?)
As it stands not when i want to switch to my other partition i have to use partition magic wich is getting sort of anoying. Also i can't transfer files between partitions, wich i'd like to be able to do.
Anyway, if anyone has any insight please let me know what i'm doing wrong and how i can set it up so that i can choose which partition/install i want to boot into on a restart.
Here's the deal: I've recently reformatted by box and i've partioned my only HDD into two partions using norton partition magic 8. I installed win xp on both partitions but for some reason when i boot up i'm not presented with the option to choose wich partition i'd like to boot to (wich is how i had it set up when i was dual booting two versions of win2k)
Partion magic is supposed to have a tool called "boot magic" that lets me set up the dual booting thing, but bootmagic is grayed out in partion magic.
The two partions are both NTFS, it says in partionmagic that the second partition is "hidden." Also in the second drive letter does not show up in my computer in the partition i'm booted into now. I've read somewhere that the two versions of XP the computer name has to be different (if so how do i change the computer name?)
As it stands not when i want to switch to my other partition i have to use partition magic wich is getting sort of anoying. Also i can't transfer files between partitions, wich i'd like to be able to do.
Anyway, if anyone has any insight please let me know what i'm doing wrong and how i can set it up so that i can choose which partition/install i want to boot into on a restart.