About a month ago I bought an Acer Aspire 5315 Notebook which comes with MS Vista pre-installed. I'm not happy with Vista, but as consumers we simply don't...
Hi - I am a new person to this list, although I have been using XOSL for a number of years now. I have to roll out a bunch of laptops in the near future. I...
... a ... like ... up ... the ... ideal ... Hi Mark, You can use Ghost to clone the XOSL partition (or the whole disk, which might be simpler in your case)....
Hi, I just got a Thinkpad A20m. It had a bare min. copy of XP on it. I want to use this as a strictly Win 98 system. I have 2 other computers..my big PC XP...
... want ... computers..my ... 98 ... Followed ... got ... discovered ... is ... suggested ... the ... case ... gigs as ... Hi Carolyn, XOSL is a boot selector...
I feel for you, having just had to recreate an installation .. To add a detail to what Antoine says, the programs he suggests make it possible to "image" a...
... Hi Junja, I'm not sure I understand what you said. The programs I mentionned don't just "image" partitions (I don't know what you meant by that). They can...
I think we're in agreement. I just wanted to suggest an alternative which keeps things as simple as possible. I raised the question of imaging simply to ...
Hi, I tried uninstalling XOSL from my Dell desktop and ran into a couple of typical noobie problems: 1. Probably uninstalled it incorrectly, as the result was...
... couple ... the ... copy ... No ... is ... I ... Hi David, The fixmbr command in the Win2k recovery console probably did its job correctly. But the MBR...
so its been a couple of years... and i finally figured it out. nick marino assumed that i was loading on a intel macintosh, not a standard pc, as i was. XosL...
... filesystem, ... i ... Great. But you know you can install XOSL over your setup and use the Original MBR option to start GRUB. Or you could install grub in...
the reflective boot method using grub would have been a good idea, it would have been cool to try. at the time my goal was to simply get the thing to work....
Hi I've used XOSL a lot over the years, and love it. But have now had two failed install experiences; one I now understand, but the other I'm stuck on, and...
... 100Gb ... disk ... disk ... Hi Matthew, This looks like the Windows boot loader not finding its files where it looks for them. If you changed the order of...
Antoine, all, Thank you for such a helpful reply. Partition sequence was 1) Create OS parition 100Gb, data partition 300Gb, I also created a final partition...
Newbie. It is likely most of you know the issue of internal SATA and WME. I learned the hard way that WME does not support SATA drives. I recently added XP in...
... other ... 100Gb ... disk ... both ... installation. ... disk ... Hi, Try to boot your pc with Win XP CD and choose Repair and if it fixes your problem but...
... If WME works when you only have your main HD and hangs when you add your SATA drive then it looks like it is a driver issue. This means that it does not...
... What David recommends is a good idea. ... When installing to a dedicated partition, XOSL reformats the partition using another file system. So a 30MB...
Hi Antoine, ... I would agree with this. 32Mb is my normal choice, but 30Mb will achieve the same result. XOSL requires less than 5Mb of hard drive space, so...
Unfortunately there is very little relating SATA and WME. I found that out when I originally was trying to add the SATA drive and finally came to the...
... They can hide the partitions but not the drive, only the BIOS can do that. But even if you hide the drive in the BIOS, many OS can detect the drive anyway....
Howdy, I just discoverd XOSL and think it's great! I'm going thru the xosl docs/forum and learning how to use it and I have some questions. Basically, I'm...
... XP and Vista can see hidden partitions so don't bother trying to hide them in XOSL. Instead, use the disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) to remove the drive...
Thanks for the quick reply. Some follow-ups... ... So, after each OS is installed, boot to each one using XOSL boot manager, run diskmgmt.msc & remove the...
Hi, I'm also user of xosl and have three os's per hard disk. it seems to be possible to boot the microsoft os's from an logical partition but I could not got...
... Right. Although I don't think its saved in a database, more likely in the registry. diskmgmt.msc is very simple to use (just don't press delete partition,...
... I was just looking around and I saw that http://multibooters.co.uk/ have a good information about this problem and explain how to copy Vista to a logical...
All the DOS tools (part, partinfo, driveinfo, etc.) running from a dos boot disk & gparted (linux boot disk) both see my raid array as two separate disks. I'm...
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