Re: [Sheflug] Ultimate dual booting guide

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:41 +0000, Lesley Anne Binks wrote:
> Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :
> 
> <snip>
> > > 
> > Can you do it with a usb stick?
> No idea.  Would be BIOS dependent as one has to boot from 
> it in times of need.  I'm sure I've heard of people booting
>  from a USB stick not sure how it's done though and fairly
>  sure it was Linux not Windows.  The whole point being that
>  I wouldn't want to lose what I have already installed via 
> XP.
>   
> As you can tell I've never rescued an XP OS either.  I 
> think the XP rescue disk creation program expects to use a 
> floppy thus making it impossible to use a CD or USB???
> 

I've never tried but as a lot of machines are now coming without
floppies, especially laptops, I'm sure there will be some way to create
a rescue usb disk.

Have a look at http://bootdisk.com/ , there may be some way to do it on
there.

> The important thing to me is that XP still operates 
> afterwards.  
> 
> One other thing I noticed is that the article seemed to 
> recommend booting into XP a couple of times to get it to 
> settle down with the new partition regime while leaving XP 
> aware of the 'alien' partition.  When I have dual booted 
> in the past I am sure I made XP 'forget' the partition 
> existed.  This was to avoid some evilness which meant the 
> 'alien' partition would be mangled by XP.  Does anyone know
>  if this is still necessary?
> 
> Regards
> 
> L.
> 
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Robin Wood
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