hi have a o/s qs!

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can u have two os installed in the folder?

 

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Depends which folder you are on about.

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You can have more than one OS on a machine.

However, they normaly won't appear as 'folders'. Usualy there will be a selection screen on startup to chose which OS to boot.

Harry.

 

If your talking about 2 OS's on the same drive and partition both in the C:\windows folder then no.

You could have a 'Windows' folder and a 'Windows1' folder (or what ever you choose)

They have to be in different directories or Windows gets it's knickers in a twist.

With dual boot Windows NT (C:\winnt) and XP (C:\windows) it will default to a different directory. eg Winnt.001 etc so it will nto use the same root folder.

 

While you *can* have more than one copy of Windows on a drive I would suggest that this is a bad move.

I've seen too many such systems get into a complete muddle mostly because of badly written software installation progs.

Because of Windows habit of dropping things like DLLs in seemingly random places I normaly keep windows versions apart on separate drives!

Harry.