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How to make a double NT installation?

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by courtneycarter

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I would like some guidance on how to install two copies of NT on one machine. One for general use and the other for emergency booting capability. I've done general NT installs before but nothing of the above nature. Any help would be appreciated.

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by tamj123

install second copy win nt in different directory. exp, the default is c:\winnt, so make second copy to c:\emgwinnt

by doubledown

Answer 1 is correct. Installing into a different directory. I believe it's called a parallel installation.

by courtneycarter

Thanks for the quick replies. Another quick question. Does this parallel install show up in the boot selection menu automatically or do I have to edit the boot.ini?

by spydergst1

If you are looking for redundancy then follow the instructions above but be sure to install on a different array which can reside on the same array controller this will ensure an installation on different harddrives for hardware redundancy.

by mckaytech

The parallel installation will show up in the BOOT.INI and will, in fact, be the default option if it was the second one installed. So you'll probably want to manually edit the BOOT.INI file to point to the normal installation as the default.

Otherwise, an unattended reboot will always put you in the parallel install rather than the production one.

paul

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