I’m reasonably familiar with the concept of ‘dual booting’. I have a PC that boots W3.11/Dos6.22 and 9x, as well as another that dual boots W95 and W98.
I want to do the following. Dual boot to two identical operating systems…well, NEARLY identical. As part of an upcoming project, I have to demonstrate our simulator systems around the UK and other places in Europe and Africa (French/Arabic speaking). I have a ‘demo and development’ system running Windows XP Professional (English), and I have a spare hard disk with Windows XP Professionel (French…hence the spelling of ‘Professionel’!). At the moment I am having to physically swap disks for different languages, which means any tweaks I make in one set of software then have to be implemented in another. I can’t even install two drives and swap them in the BIOS because the system is fited in a Mini ITX with only one 3.5″ drive bay (case dimensions 24cm x 20cm x 5cm….and it’s then installed mechanically in the simulator flight-case!).
Can anyone tell me – Is it possible to have dual boot on one drive with an option to boot to French XP or English XP. As many of the files (drivers, dll’s etc) are going to be doubled up between versions, it seems an awful waste of space (and an IDE channel with the computer on the bench and the lid ripped off) to use two drives.I’m not talking regional settings or keyboard layouts….I’m talking the WHOLE OS!!!
Perhaps some Canadians out there may be able to help…perhaps there’s a ‘Canadian’ XP Pro that supports this feature implicitly…although I’d prefer British English to US English!!!
Any clues??
