Dual booting Windows XP with Windows XP

[Computer semi-expert]

Probably. It looks like there was either a glitch with the installer or there was a slight software difference. Either way, it shouldn't hurt.

 

[Elizabeth23]

it is something to do with DEP, I believe you had a question before on that.

 

[Computer semi-expert]

Specifically, it controls how--and whether--DEP runs at startup.

 

[Janice]

So what do you think I should do. Leave it alone as it is or should I edit XP Professional 1 also to read /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn (the way it appears in XP Professional 2)?

 

[Elizabeth23]

leave it alone.

 

[Computer semi-expert]

If you edit it, you can always just boot to a Linux CD to fix it if it goes bad.

 

[Janice]

leave it alone.

That's what I thought of doing. Thinking about it further, what if I create and save system images of both XPs and then edit the Boot.ini. If something goes wrong I can recover the images to the 2 partitions. What do you think of this?

 

[Computer semi-expert]

Great. Go ahead with that.