Ron:

You have been extremely helpful in explaining the entire situation and I am
'getting the picture'.
Before I can do anything, I will have to back up my whole system, or at
least the things I would like to keep.
At the moment I am not ready for it, but fully prepared
to go ahead at any time in the future.
Thank you so very much.

Harry.


"Ron Martell" wrote in message
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"webster72n" wrote:


Ron:

I am just a little bit lost here, when it comes to installing WinXP. I
already did install BootMagic, but how does it do the installation of
WinXP?
I was under the impression it handles the booting process only. If there
is
a connection,
I'd surely prefer being prepared for it.
Don't forget, Ron, I am not an expert and the scope of my knowledge is
somewhat limited.
Thank you for your input.

Harry.

Boot your computer and tell BootMagic to boot from the 40 gb D:
partition.

It will, of course, fail to boot. But that partition will now be
configured as the primary boot. Insert your Windows XP install CD
and then press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot the computer.

If your computer's BIOS boot selection sequence is properly configured
(either diskette first, CDROM second, Hard drive third; or CDROM
first, diskette second, Hard Drive third) then the computer will boot
from the XP install CD and will install on the selected partition (D

p.s. My personal opinion is that all boot managers, including Boot
Magic, should be configured so that the non-booting operating system
partitions are always automatically hidden, which means that whichever
operating system is booted that partition will always be C:

This makes it much easer to avoid cross-contamination of the operating
system files as it is impossible to put something into C:\Windows
which needs to be in D:\Windows (or vice versa) and likewise with
deletions.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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