Dual booting on 2 seperate h/d
I was using WinMe. Then I got WinXP Pro, so i bought a new h/d and installed it on that, while I disconnected the WinMe.. I reconnected and made it a slave just to copy files and personal stuff over, but didn't disconnect it and left it like it is.. Now I want to know if I can make WinXP dual boot between them.. I've been to Microsoft's KB and found how to do it on the different partitions so I thought it shouldn't really be that much different. I had to edit the Boot.ini file in the root of Winxp..
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
I:\ = "Microsoft Windows"
I put that like it said and I got the option at startup to choose which one, but all it did was reboot, so I change it to:
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
I:\Windows="Microsoft Windows"
Now it asking for a file "hal.dll" which goes "windows root>\system32\hal.dll" I've found it in Winxp, but not Winme.. I've checked all the cabs.. It's a "Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL" what ever that is. I can't see it if I copy the version from Winxp to Winme it'll work, so I'll just have to play around some more..