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SpaceCowboy706

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Im not very good in this area and in the past i have used GRUB as a boot loader for a dual boot ubuntu and xp, with each on thier own drives inside 1 pc. That has worked like a champ in the past and now i am wanting to dual boot two different hard drives, with each hard drive having thier own seperate installation of windows xp.

I have searched google and all I have found is referrences to buy this or that bootloader and I am sure that there is a way to do this without having to purchase a bootlolader. My question is this?

Is there some way to do this through altering the boot.ini file to list two different drives with each a different xp install.... or is there a way to do this through the recovery console and bootcfg?
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forgot to add.. what im doing now is I have windows xp on 1 drive and windows xp on the second drive as well. dpepnding on what drive i want to boot into i just unplug power from the other drive and change the boot order in the bios. This is working but is a big pain in the <you know what goes here>..... is why im wanting to figure out how to do this.
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Are you still duel booting linux? If so is GRUB not working?
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