Dual boot: XP & MCE - can it be done?

[dubplatepressure]

Hey All,


It possible to install XP on one HD and MCE on another, and selectively run one or the other?

Cheers,

 

[fattony]

yes you may dual boot them, i suggest you keep the installations on seperate partitions or better yet seperate drives

 

[casemods]

WTF MCE is XP

PRO, HOME, and MCE are all XP

:\ :\ :\

 

[dubplatepressure]

whatever... my question was can you dual boot them, not whether they were of the same origin or not.

 

[casemods]

whatever... my question was can you dual boot them, not whether they were of the same origin or not.

Perhaps you meant to ask if you can dual boot 2 windows XP operating systems?

 

[Zoron]

I think the question he was getting at was...

"Why would you want to?"

After all, what can you do in XP Home or Pro that you can't in MCE? MCE is Pro with a fancy shell, after all.

 

[casemods]

I think the question he was getting at was...

"Why would you want to?"

After all, what can you do in XP Home or Pro that you can't in MCE? MCE is Pro with a fancy shell, after all.

MCE has the media functions, PRO and Home do not.

 

[Zoron]

Uh... yeah... I know.

Which begs the question:

"If you have MCE, why do you need an installation of Home or Pro?"

Why not simply stick with MCE instead of purchasing yet another OS?

 

[casemods]

Uh... yeah... I know.

Which begs the question:

"If you have MCE, why do you need an installation of Home or Pro?"

Why not simply stick with MCE instead of purchasing yet another OS?

Ah, ok

I think he wants the media stuff sometimes, for a t.v. tuner perhaps, and PRO or home to game... :?

 

[sly1]

can you dual boot xp pro with xp gamer

 

[Ijack]

Stick with Fat Tony's reply and just ignore the others!

 

[Zoron]

Ignore this!

 

[mcubert]

it would be really great if someone has an answer to this, or have tried it, that they share it with the group. i want to install xp mce on a separate partition of my comp which has xp pro as the primary. nevermind why i want to do it, or what the heck - mce is just a fancy shell.. that's not an answer to the question. has anyone tried it, and if so, what was the procedure you used?

thanks.