Dual boot

Hi Guys
I have a winxp (home edition) box and I want to know if I can install a second OS (winxp pro) in another hard drive in the same machine and how can I dual boot them...? any inputs are welcome,
Thanks
J.J.

just install. XP will recognize the two installations and offer a boot menu.

Thanks M.Hirsch.
It work fine....thanks again.
J.J.

Hi Guys
Can any one tell me if there is a way to uninstall winxp pro from me drive
Thanks
J.J.

type "format <drive_letter>"

that will remove windows and everything else on the drive. Windows doesnt really have its own uninstall since, in MS logic, why would you ever want to uninstall. When you upgrade a system you are given the option to save uninstall information so you can roll back to the old OS but if its a clean install you are stuck

windows uses mostly these three folders:
WINDOWS
Program Files
Documents and Settings

if you delete all three, it should be gone.

Be careful. since you had two installations, they might overlap! (You hopefully did a backup before the installation anyway...)

also edit "c:\boot.ini" to remove XPpro from the boot menu.

iirc you also have to restore the boot sector if you installed to another partition or the boot loader will still offer the second drive for booting (although it won´t).

btw, i recently had a similar problem, i wanted to "fdisk /mbr" my hard disk.
WinXP does not come with fdisk anymore...
lucky me could restore it using linux´ "dd", but i won´t tell now and here...
But: does anyone have a "clean" solution how to restore the boot sector from windows XP?

Thanks guys for your inputs, I'll do the format option later, first I have to test the winxp pro running a web server with my linux box and samba.
Thanks again
J.J.

I'm not sure about "CLEAN" but I usedta just used fdisk /mbr offa a boot disk of said OS (M$).

To clear it out rightly if it's on a secondary drive if formatting isn't an option:
deltree %systemroot%
delete the files in the d:\ (including hidden files, you'll prolly need to attrib them)
delete stizzuf in program files that don't relate to things you need in the other OS (data) mostly Internet Explorer
and the documents and settings folders.

One thing to be warned about is that if you boot of an old floppy is that the system files dont recognise NTFS partitions, IE you wont see the hard drive when you boot from a floppy disk.

That's why I sed "said OS" i.e. XP bootdisk or bootcd, It's like buttah.