can you use the windows xp disk more than once?
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A home user can use a windows xp disk on one computer as many times as he/she wishes.
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When you start the installation for XP, it'll ask you to format or remove the current partition.  You can remove all partitions and reformat this way.
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The above are good this, but this an alternative\n(try on your own risk, worked for me)\nwhen win xp is loading, like when it come Windows Xp (=====)\nrestart it, and then you'll see, the muliple option of booting.
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you could use a program called VM virtual machine. this lets you install as many operating systems as you want without touching you file system.\n\nfor example: you could have windows XP installed in your computer with NTFS using all your available space. And create a virtual machine to run with this app that creates a file that emulates another hard drive.\n\nfor more information google it!!!
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you need a full version of XP not an upgrade disk ... i would imagine u could keep 98 installed on an old harddrive and stored in a drawer until you need it ... if you need to install XP then just plug in da Second HD with 98 on it and let ur upgrade see dat one ...you dont have to install over the same HD i dont think ...
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You need to reinstall your XP OS again.
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Yeah it's possible. Here's the MS article: \nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/multiboot.mspx
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No. There is no eay way. Perhaps the easiest is to simply buy another hard disk (if you can actually install one in your hardware) and install a fresh copy of the operating system on it, making it the a new c drive, but this raises some particular issues. Some applications (and many operating systems) require that certain files (configuration stuff, for instance) be on the same drive from which the system has booted (or on which the application is installed). So changing to a new drive like this will involve some obscure issues dependent on not so obvious details of how this or that program (including the operating system) was designed and implemented. \n\n==========\nThere are some things you'll have to think about here, before you do anything at all. I'll assume you aren't going to get a new hard disk, and discuss the problem as you laid it out. Namely, reformatting the existing C drive and reinstalling your system on it. \n\nDo you really need to reformat? You may be able to reinstall Windows over itself, and if a damage Windows file is part of the problem, escape without the major pain of reformatting. \n\n========\nFirst, without the installation CD (or copies of all the files from it) you're sunk. I'm not sure from what you say whether you have a copy of the CD on your second drive or not. If you don't ... Trouble lies that way. \n\nSecond, You must backup everything you have on the C drive that is not reinstalled from the distribution disks. And you must be certain that whatever backup method you choose will be able to actually read the backup formatted files after the reinstallation. It is not unusual, sadly, for some backup programs to be unable to actually read in the backup files it creates. \n"Backup" includes the operating system (Microsoft has dropped support for 98 and for SE, so you would be well advised to update -- my suggestion is to 2000, but some folks are willing to settel for 2000 Lite -- ie, XP. Or even to make this your opportunity to switch to a vendor who poses fewer problems -- the main option as I write this is one of the kind_of_Unixen), Linux -- my favorite is the SuSE distribution). And "backup" includes application files as well. Identifying just which files these are, and where they are is not always easy. Clearly all your pictures and documents you've written and would qualify, but applications (and operating systems) usually have several configuration files, history files, backup files, index files, ... which it will save time to have copes of. But, if an application doesn't provide for saving these and reinstalling them over a fresh installtion of the application, ...  There will be problems here as well. You might have to reconfigure some or all of your applications (and the operating system too) after reinstallation. this is a pain, but may be unavoidable...\n\nThird, you must be certain that any new hardware you've installed will be recognized by the Windows boot routines at reinstallation time. It might be wise to start a reinstallation (with the intent of cancelling it essentially immediately) to test whether the BIOS will call up the Windows installation routines from wherever they are, and whether they will be able to find the new hardware. Since hardware support (ie, drivers and design troubleshooting) for 98SE has mostly been dropped, increasingly more hardware will not be supported for 98SE.  Without support, you'll have to write your own drivers -- not recommended.\n\nFourth, you must, when reinstalling, configure your software in ways which are compatible with how they used to be configured, lest there be odd (perhaps fatal) happenings from the incompatibilites. Some things don't matter -- like icon colors or the shape of the cursor, but some will.\n\nFifth, keep a record of what you did and why at each step of the way, starting before you begin backing up. Include all instructions (and options) and the immediate re
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From my understanding, it sounds like you want to "copy" you install of windows XP onto another computer.  This will not work for a few reasons. 1) The current WinXP installation is configured for the machine its on right now.  If you transfer exactly that windows install it will not load. (without some major hacks)\n2)It's technically illegal to install one copy of windows xp on two machines.\n\nBut on the other hand to transfer information between the two machines, the easiest solution is to pull the Hard drive from the 98 machine and stick it in the XP machine.  XP will recognize this new drive and make it a local drive (E, or some other letter).  From that point you can tranfer information to and from it like any other storage device.
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Your best option is to run a repair on your XP installation.\nMake the CD the boot drive, put in you XP installation disk and follow the questions. Once the setup says it  discovered a previous version of Windows take the option of doing a Repair. This will over install your XP and maintain a lot of your setting's
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Put the xp cd in and boot from the cd. Choose clean install. When it is finished you will be able to use xp normally
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Your only option at this point is to contact microsoft. If its a valid version they will give you another key. Windows xp key only works twice to begin with and then you have to contact them. If you are trying to boot a copy forget it! the encryption is almost infallible!
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Yes, you can, and normally it works fine without the need to reinstall the operating system. However, partitioning a hard drive always carries a small risk, so I would NOT recommend doing this if you don't own the intallation disk for the operating system (presumably Windows XP). Otherwise, if something goes wrong and you need to format the hard disk, you'll be forced to buy Windows XP separately which could be expensive.
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In general, if you insert the Windows XP disk and REBOOT.... step through the installation process.   At the point of INSTALLING, you can see that you can DELETE or ADD new partitions.   Of course, if this is your existing C drive and all of the space is allocated in existing partitions, you can't do anything.    But I use this method to create a new partition on a new drive all the time. \n\nThere are products that you can buy, such as Partition Magic, that will allow you to resize and make new partitions.
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part of the installation process for xp is to erase the hard drive including previous system. if you do not want to erase 98 you can leave it but they don't work together. good luck.
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When installing XP Pro it should give you the option of upgrading. When it does this all files are left intact. I would definitely suggest you save any files you want to cd or dvd before hand. If this is for a desktop pc you could use a new harddrive for XP Pro and use the other drive as a second drive for storage of your files and then just clean it out of all the other stuff you dont need.
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ya, u can do it.\nIt is called unattended installation.\n\nfirst make two folders on any drive.\n\nInsert XP cd in cd drive > open it > support > tools > deploy.cab > open it and extract all of it in another file making on ur hdd drive.\n\nThere is a file setupmgr.exe > open and read carefully it and process it. Afer two or three steps, there is a option for installation type > fully automated > in distribution folder > put the second folder which has u made before it.\nMake sure that share name must be same, otherwise u forgot it.\n\nafter completion of this process, some files start copy from cd and goes on ur folder, which u have to select for distribution folder.\n\ngo on client side, where u have to install windows xp.\n\nopen command prompt > type command (net use k: &#92;&#92;server computer name (where ur files has been copied)&#92;share folder name)\nGo on l:\nl: unattend (computer name, which u have added earlier during process of setupmgr.)\n\ngood luck!!!!!!!!!