On 17 Sep 2006 at 16:31, Brad Feuerhelm wrote:

> One question for the major geeks out there.
> 
> I want to dual boot 3 separate XP Pro SP2 installs.
> Which would be better all around; 1 big drive partitioned out, or 3 
> separate drives one for each XP install?

  There's a third option, which you may not have realized existed:

  If you install Windows NT/2K/XP to a drive which already has a Windows 
NT/2K/XP installation on it, but choose to install to a new directory, 
Windows will add this install to the list of options in BOOT.INI which is 
used to build the multi-boot menu.  Those windows directories don't have to 
be on separate drives or partitions; they can all be on one.

  I sometimes use this to provide a normal-use boot with all applications, 
and a recovery installation with only the minimum drivers and applications 
necessary for basic system tasks.

David Gillett

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