After Installing XP64 on a second HDD and several wrong multiboot attempts, I created new boot.ini files, installed xosl, activated hiding But my windows xp on...
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justmetheold
Jan 30, 2006 8:26 pm
Any answer would be welcome *sigh*...
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Derek Bingham
derek_bingha...
Jan 30, 2006 8:34 pm
Any Windows messages on start? justmetheold <IfYouKnowHow@...> wrote: Any answer would be welcome *sigh* ... To unsubscribe, send email to:...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Jan 30, 2006 10:20 pm
... It shouldn't be on G. The fact that it's on G would suggest that other Operating System-bearing partitions are visible. XOSL works best when only one OS is...
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justmetheold
Jan 31, 2006 1:47 pm
First thanks for the answers ... Long time ago Win95 was C, I added one day WinXP, a new HDD + Xosl. That worked fine, and so xp is not on C. Then I moved the...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Jan 31, 2006 3:11 pm
... justmetheold (strange name) you're welcome. ... Using XOSL you should still have had XP on C - just a different partition that will also be seen as C coz...
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justmetheold
Feb 1, 2006 3:17 pm
First, thanks for the answer and the many suggestions - to the name: I usually use "JustMe" but it is used by someone else, so I used a name from WoW, a game...
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Nick Marino
comp2050
Feb 4, 2006 2:57 am
... [...] ... Yea... NT5.x (2k/xp) can give the boot drive any letter you want... for some time (until my last reinstall) my windows 2000 system booted from D...
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john_negus
Mar 14, 2006 8:30 pm
I installed xosl (on a dos partition) on a new system and on bootup it runs to the point where it displays the Extended Operating System Loader 1.1.5 line then...
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Rick Valstar
rvalstar
Mar 15, 2006 1:01 pm
I had a similar experience on my new P4 machine w/ a large bootable SATA RAID1 drive and, after many permutations, abandoned XOSL all together. I actually...
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culpittsmith
Mar 20, 2006 11:49 am
Please could anyone help? Background:- I've been using an 80gB hard drive, which I've divided into 8 partitions, using Ranish. XOSL has it's own dedicated...
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Verc Jornes
vjornes
Mar 20, 2006 6:21 pm
If the logical partition you're booting 98 from is beyond the 1024 cylinder limit you'll need to edit the boot code to allow Int13 extensions during boot time....
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culpittsmith
Mar 21, 2006 12:35 pm
Hi Verc - thanks for your help. When that partition became corrupted, I did a quick format & then copied my backup as files & folders - NOT as an image....
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Doc Chiron
doc_chiron
Mar 21, 2006 11:12 pm
Doc Chiron here: comments interspersed. ... Subject: [xosl] Re: Can't boot ONE of my partitions! Hi Verc - thanks for your help. When that partition became...
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John
john_negus
Mar 22, 2006 4:10 pm
... How did you do that - copying them by hand or using the 'sys' program to do it? It may be that the partition boot sector hasn't been initialised .. junja...
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Doc Chiron
doc_chiron
Mar 24, 2006 12:02 am
old stuff: Agreed! I should have mentioned that the failed partition was FAT32 (as all of them) & was previously Win98se. Also, that after the re-format, I did...
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Colin Culpitt-Smith
culpittsmith
Mar 24, 2006 2:07 pm
Hi Doc - very many thanks for the trouble you've gone to & the lengthy advice so well explained. Hope that didn't result in your Boss giving you hell !! I...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Mar 24, 2006 2:14 pm
... Doc, have you got thigs a bit mixed up here? Being 98, his image would contain IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM rather than NTLDR et al. And the boot...
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Kenn Yuill
yuilligan
Mar 24, 2006 10:23 pm
I prefer a dark blue colour for your text and lab coats should be white for most people, ;-) . On 23/03/06 at 17:42, Doc Chiron wrote about the subject of ...
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Doc Chiron
doc_chiron
Mar 24, 2006 11:06 pm
Colin: (Just noticed that relies are written on your stationery.) Stop using that damn MSDOS-6.22. It cannot handle FAT32. It also cannot use INT-13 extensions...
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Doc Chiron
doc_chiron
Mar 25, 2006 12:28 am
Doc Chiron here: continuation of incomplete previous message. You obviously didn't get the gist of what I was recommending. Without using MS-DOS6.22 at ALL,...
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Doc Chiron
doc_chiron
Mar 25, 2006 1:08 am
Doc Chiron here: Dermot, you are so right! I mistakenly got it in my head that his OS was an NT based version - arrggghhh! Wiser still was the idea to use...
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Colin Culpitt-Smith
culpittsmith
Mar 27, 2006 12:15 pm
Hi Doc - sorry about the delay in replying, but it's taken me all weekend to read & digest what you've said!! Firstly, thanks for all your trouble. I may have...
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cat_heel_budgie
Apr 8, 2006 4:21 pm
hi i know it is possible to have 4 installs of xp on one hdd, cos i did it a few months ago, and which O/S loaded depended on which partition was set active,...
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Jamie Dale
dale_jamie
Apr 8, 2006 8:36 pm
Well you need to set each partition active before you install an OS to it. Of course XP's installer allows you to indstall to another drive other than c: BUT...
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dave miller
cat_heel_budgie
Apr 10, 2006 7:30 pm
... From: Jamie Dale To: xosl@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [xosl] Digest Number 1286 Well you need to set each partition...
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Phillip Chee
agfoodptbo
Apr 11, 2006 1:27 pm
You also need to hide each partition, install XP on the remaining visible one, which will be c: for all of them, and then re-install XOSL to add it to the boot...
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Jamie Dale
dale_jamie
Apr 11, 2006 7:29 pm
Yeah sorry I should of mentioned that the other partitions must be hidden while you make your target partition active. Also, No version of Windows will boot...
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Doc Chiron
doc_chiron
Apr 12, 2006 5:27 am
Doc Chiron here: guess you haven't read this: XOSL HOWTOs and FAQs v1.00 by Filip Komar ( ...
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Kenn Yuill
yuilligan
Apr 12, 2006 8:53 am
On 12/04/06 at 00:36, Doc Chiron wrote about the subject of "Digest Number 1288" > Netiquette request: > Please trim the excess garbage (advertising and...
