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Here are the steps to install Win 98 AFTER installing Win XP
What does it have that Partition magoic doesn't, for instance. BTW, the previous owner did installed Win2K from a CD, but the hidden partition is still there ... Thanks for writing. => if e-mailing, remove the anti-spam "1" digit If I'm not mistaken, the Windows 2000/XP partition manager in the install can actually

license question for a dual-boot (Vista/XP) setup
But now when I try to get back into XP I get a STOP screen. I booted into ME and ran Partition Magic, only to find that the XP = partition was now a "hidden" NTFS partition!!! The only way to get back into XP is to unhide the partition, go into he = recovery console and re-install the NT Loader into the MBR.

HELP-Recovering hidden space in hard drive 30 GIGA
I repeated install in the new XP partition, this time with success. It boots to a black menu screen allowing to choose booting from the recently installed new XP instance or from the old one (although this old one is in a different partition and hidden at install time from the new one). The new XP instance boots

how to make recovery cd of hidden xp partition
Bob Sharon wrote: Personally, I'm using something else to image the XP partition so "disaster recovery" is already covered. I was looking at this program .... This partition is hidden when in the other systems, so no virus can touch the files (boot sector virus excepted - but then I have other problems, don'tI).

Inserting BootMagic after the fact
Harry Ohrn harry...@webtree.ca alt os windows-xp What was used to hide the partition? You may need to run a third party app to unhide the partition. Partition Magic, Drive Image How do I unhide a XP partition. Under diskmanager (diskmgmt.msc), I cannot right click on the partitiion to give it a drive letter.

Can I do the following?
It just automatically boots into XP, unless I hit escape to hit my bios boot menu, and select that third hard drive to boot from. Based on what I had read beforehand, I had expected to get the boot menu option to boot into either OS, and was surprised I did not. When I am in XP, the Vista partition shows as " L

Xp hidden swap file with high memory configs (256+ MB)
When i copy NTFS-XP partition, it should be hidden or unhidden ? 2. Does it matter where i copy it ? 3. Is new copied partition NTFS ? 3. When i do it, PM say this "the partition may not bootable" does it matter ? Point boot.ini to the copy, and test if both systems boot and all data is intact.

Dual boot problem?
But now think of this, My harddrive is only 6gb, with and an XP partition on it (4gb), and a win98 partition (2gb). What if one had a 6gb harddrive and installed 1024mb of memory, and doesnt use the computer for games? Surely a 3.5 gigabyte page file would be a complete waste of half your harddrive?

BOOTITNG questions
Set hidden xp primary partition to active, rebooted to cd-rom, loaded xp and all is well. thanks all, Mike "Brian K" <iibntgyea4_ remove_th...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:_Owrc.2100$L.1879@news-server.bigpond.net.au... Your partition should be a primary (hidden) partition and at this stage shouldn't have a

Accessing files on hidden partition
Which partition was the original WinXP installation on? C, but there was another hidden XP partition in front of it. The first (drive C:)? The second? Was the old 1st and is now the old 2nd drive. - Which partition is it now on? The first? The second? 2nd partio0n on the 100GB drive. After a W98se partition.

LILO and Windows XP
Edit the hidden text file "BOOT.INI" in c:\ to add Windows 98 menu item (C:\="Microsoft Windows 98") on the last line, so your "BOOT. Install Windows 98 Install Windows 98 in different partition than XP partition. 4. Create BOOTSECT.DOS file The Windows 98 installation process will overwrite the XP boot sector

Incorrect reported partition used space under XP Pro sp2
My setup: C D E (C2, hidden if "C:" is active) XP data storage win98 5 gig 20 gig 15 gig 3 gig You need MORE than 2gig for a XP partition btw. !!!! How i did it: Use PM7, create aC: in front for XP, one C: (hidden) as last partition on my HD.Both C:'s must be PRIMARY partitions, and ONLY PM7 allows the creation of

Adding an XP partition
John @starband.net comp sys laptops Along these lines, how would one go about removing the hidden partition without doing an OS install? I have a new T-30 with XP pro. I had IBM send me the install disks, so if I have a problem I have a backup for the OS. As far as I can tell, the hidden partition is not needed now

DELL (8200) hidden partition
1 to boot XP and set whatever partition(s) you want as visible/hidden. Another to boot your DOS installation. Again, when you install DOS (no real need to install Win 3.1) to the second partition, it will overwrite the Master Boot Record. This will cause BootIt not to load, and the system will boot straight into

Deleting XP partition
Steve stevest...@rmplc.co.uk alt os windows xp Thanks, I got there in the end. Using DISKPART i can 'remove' the partition. DISKPART is in XP as standard. What I do is make the partitions I want to hide 'hidden' by changing their partition type to the hidden variety (eg 07h=NTFS >>> 17h-Hidden NTFS).

hidden partition, BootMagic - Heeelp!
And many of them (the oem keys, the hidden partition stuff, for example) are still documented on their website. (I saw them just a few weeks ago. They even post OEM keys for XP for people to use because they had deactivated all the sticker keys.) Also, if you ask an OEM computer maker about obtaining a real

Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box
You should be able to sort that with your Partition Magic - if it's not on the win2000 partition install a fresh copy. Then mark the XP partition as active primary partition, the win2000 as hidden primary partition. Put a copy of the PQboot utility from PM in the root folder of each partition too when you get the

Vista Installation deletes XP partition
When you cloned, did you remember to make the new drive NOT a hidden partition? If it is hidden, that might be why. Partition is active, checked status with What I had done was to clone only the XP partition from a dual boot 98/XP Pro off my main drive (0) onto my 2nd HD (1) So the original boot.ini which has

Which partition for recording changes?
Partition Magic 8.0 didn't work either - it didn't recognise the USB drive as a drive. Any ideas? Windows 2000/XP/Vista's Local Disk Management will normally allow you to delete the partition. I found a guide using that (more related to removing a hard drive's hidden partition) but it doesn't seem to work for the

Anyone give me a step by step to setting up raid 0?
In all cases I create a new partition, set it up as Primary and FAT 32. (Result 1) If I try to follow PM's ambiguous instructions which involves creating a partition for XP then installing in this partition. I've tried this letting PM guide the process. I've created the partition myself making it hidden and