In this article I want to tell you how to install WinXP regardless WinME / 9x, but it's not all !!! More in this article will be told, what I have not seen any more where on the Internet, namely, how to subsequently establish the axes independently of each other after the formatting of one of them (in particular, when WinXP installed on NTFS file system) . The word independent installation I understand that the boot file of both axes will be in the section where you installed this axis (operating system or OS). In writing this article I echoed many letters with a personal matter and the need to install WinXP regardless WinME / 9x, since I am relatively often some format the drives. Further, under XP will be understood - WinXP, and under the IU - WinME / 9x.

Preparatory work

For this operation, you need the following:

1. A good program for the breakdown of the disc. FDISK is not suitable, since it can not create more than one primary partition and can not work with the NTFS file system. Personally, I advise you to PartitionMagic, which in addition to the functions we need a lot of other (no less useful). In preparing this article, I used PartitionMagic 7.0

2. Easy to set up and handle the computer boot manager. download manager with WinXP being delivered very difficult to setup for the average user, and it is likely you will not do. I advise you BootMenu , to a file with a program attached understandable information.

3. And of course themselves distributions with OSes

Before you begin, I still want to advise specify when installing PartitionMagic`a, what would he copied to the disk in your folder also their modules for use in DOS`e. These modules greatly simplify your life in the performance of our task (and surely will help you in the future). You will need to create a floppy disk boot area (but not a boot floppy, as DOS`ovskaya version of the PM (PartitionMagis) distribution will simply not on the floppy). And then just copy the contents of a floppy disk DOS folder (it is in a folder with PartitionMagic). Now when you need to download version DOS`ovskuyu PM, you'll need to boot from a floppy disk and give the command: pqmagic.exe

Practice

Now, if you're done, you can proceed to install WinXP and independent WinME / 9x.

Boot from our previously harvested floppy disk and run the PM DOS`ovskuyu version of it. Booting to PM you will need to create, as the two primary minima (Primary) section. I recall that there can be a maximum of four (one fourth will be (if established) advanced (the Extended) section). Personally, I've broken so: The first program the primary partition (NTFS) released under XP, the second primary partition under the ME, the third under Linux Mandrake 7.0, and chetvrtym became extended partition divided for four more logical (for web servers, files, programs and etc). Next, make active (Set Active ...) This section, which in the beginning will be installing the OS. I did at the beginning of the active partition under XP.

Now I advise you to first install XP, ME and only then, as the problems will be less (for those who want to set the first ME, and then XP, read how to do this below).

Now start the installation of XP and Lean back in the chair! After installing XP, you can immediately install IU. Installed? If so, you probably noticed that IU rubbed boot area and XP you probably grabbed their head thinking that the hour of installing XP - down the drain. Wait, I'm not vain advise you to download a program rulny BootMenu (I hope you have already studied a reference to it). Our next steps are: Boot to DOS clean, go to the folder with this program and give the command:

  bmi.com d0 54 WinXP = 0 = 1 WinME 

Though I hope you have read the FAQ and I still do not give much guidance to the team. d0 - it represents the hard disk on which all transactions (if you have one hard drive, you must write it so) are produced. 54 - this time through which loads the operating system will be the default destination (it must be the first in the team, in this case WinXP). Timeout is measured in ticks = 1/18 seconds (ie 54 = 3 sec.). The following is a list of operating systems. This list is given in the sequence in which it should be displayed on the screen, the first in the list of the OS, the OS will be loaded by default, at the expiration of the timeout. I note that the numbers 0 and 1 indicate, the section number (in this case 0 - the first section 1 - second, etc.).

Now if you have done everything correctly, when a boot menu when you load your computer by pressing F1 should be loaded XP, and when you press the F2 - IU.

After reading the above written material you ask: "And what was actually needed to create all of these primary partitions and tinker with BootMenu, when you could just set the ME, and then XP, which will create a bootloader?". The answer is simple: what would you do if suddenly you had to format the XP and put it over the new. XP would put all of their download files to the disk to the IU, and then one day, IU would have crashed and you had to format the drive with him and Boot XP ??? That's when you and ran around the room in search of an opportunity to boot into XP installed on NTFS. I think you understand the meaning of, and if you do not understand, then read again.

Now I want to talk about how to properly install XP already installed IU (for example, when you just formatnul XP). Before installing XP you need to do the following: remove the loader IU with its section (io.sys, command.com), so that XP did not find ME and do !!! XP partition to active. By doing this, you can safely install XP. After installing XP, you'll need to boot into the DOS clean, restore bootloader IU (for example, C command: \ WINDOWS \ COMMAND \ sys c:, and then will need to install BootMenu again.

That's basically all I wanted to tell. If you have any questions about this article, feel free to ask them in a specially dedicated to the topic of our forum. Also at the forum (forum.web-hack.ru) you can ask any question about computers, and the site of the forum (www.web-hack.ru) you will find a large number of articles and programs.