Dual-Booting Tips for XP Embedded

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reboot the machine into Windows XP Embedded. Dual-booting provides some cost savings by … The following sections provide some tips on how to …

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Dual-Booting Tips for XP Embedded
By Sean D. Liming
Managing Director
SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions
February 2005
Many first-time Windows?XP Embedded developers choose their own development systems as
an XPe target platform. Known as dual-booting, it allows the developer to build the XPe OS in
Windows?XP Professional, download the OS to a separate partition or hard drive, and then
reboot the machine into Windows XP Embedded. Dual-booting provides some cost savings by
not having to buy a separate PC as a target. What many developers run into, when developing in
this fashion, is the problem of setting up the correct parameters within the XPe configuration and
the boot.ini file. The XPe newsgroups are filled with questions about ARC paths, boot.ini settings,
and drive letter issues. In the following, I will try to demystify the different issues:
Configuration Settings
Back in the Windows NT Embedded days, changing the ARC path in the boot.ini file of the
primary active partition was the only setting requirement to dual-boot…