Dual Boot Laptop

Paul123_2

Wondering if anyone knows.

Have a laptop from work at long last which ive configured for dual boot, XP for home and 2000 for work. Ive been messing about with partition magic and has a feature called hide partition.

What i want to do is when the laptop boots into XP to hide the 2k partition completely anfd vise versa.

Any help appreciated, ive reached the scratching head stage

clarkeyi

Hello

Not too sure what you mean. The way it should be done is install each Operating system on a separate partition or hard drive. When you boot up you obviously rhe choice of the 2 O/S but once logged in you have control over only 1 O/s and the other will only be visible within the diectory structure which does not need to be hidden

hope this helps

Paul123_2

Hi mate,

Yep have done all that and works great but i need to make sure the home partition is hidden at work, and work partition at home. I dont want the files from the partition not in use to be accessible (security blah blah blah)

Found partition / boot magic seems to have the feature to allow me to do it but keeps on messing up the installs when i convert the drives between logical / primry / hidden etc etc.

Paul123_2

May have solved it.

Installed OS's

Win 2k then XP - created its own boot menu

Installed Boot Magic and Partition Magic next, that created a boot menu in front of the Windows derived boot menu....

Hence i think thats why i couldnt hide the partitions because it was being treated as one large 40gb partition effectively rather than 2x20gb.

Word idiot springs to mind