[TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, matt1027 wrote:

> My question today is about installing WinXP on the same 
> hard drive as Mandriva.  I have a dual boot system with 
> Win98 on the small (8GB) hda and Mandriva on the 80GB, 
> hdb, with LILO in MBR of hda.  I need to add WinXP on hdb

I'm under the impression that you cannot have two windows 
installations on the same machine. Each expects to boot off 
drive C: and will deliberately corrupt/refomat the other 
installation. At least that's the way it's been with 
previous pairs of windows (W2k, w98). I couldn't get it to 
work anyhow.

Joe

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