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Title: Using Ghost to dual boot...possible?
Post by: JLR2000 on December 18, 2005, 11:23:12 pm

Okay, maybe this is a dumb question but after searching unsuccessfully I thought I'd throw it out here....

I have a laptop that had W2K on it.  I ghosted that to another drive (partition to partition). I then wiped the Laptop drive, loaded XP SP2 and partitioned the remaining space for a d: drive and left 5 gig free.  My hope was to put the original W2K ghosted files back on the laptop drive (partition to partition) and then somehow be able to dual boot (XP or W2K), with both seeing the d: drive.

Is this possible?  The reason I'm concerned is that I had an old ghost image of the same laptop drive with XP on it, and I thought I could restore it.  It copied fine, but would not boot. 

Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks for looking.....

Title: Re: Using Ghost to dual boot...possible?
Post by: USSEnterprise on December 18, 2005, 11:44:00 pm

Did you have a boot loader installed?

Title: Re: Using Ghost to dual boot...possible?
Post by: JLR2000 on December 18, 2005, 11:48:24 pm

No, when I restored the XP partition the first time it was the only OS on the drive.

Is it as simple as loading a boot manager/loader and telling it about the other OS partition?

Title: Re: Using Ghost to dual boot...possible?
Post by: USSEnterprise on December 18, 2005, 11:54:01 pm

I'm pretty sure, that if you have two partitions with two different OS's, you need a bootloader installed to boot to the secondary partition

Title: Re: Using Ghost to dual boot...possible?
Post by: JLR2000 on December 19, 2005, 12:04:23 am

Hmmm, I wonder why the old XP image didn't boot then....

I have a  boot loader that came with my Partition Magic, I'll give that a try.

Thanks.