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Mulitple Hard Drive Inquiry

Started by rs316hy , May 27 2005 03:29 PM

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rs316hy

Posted 27 May 2005 - 03:29 PM

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I have a system with 2 hard drives. The C: drive I boot on right now has Windows 2000 Professional and the F: drive has Windows XP Pro. My question is, if possible, how do I select which hard drive I want to boot to without switching the IDE cable? Can I have a "boot menu" for selecting which hard drive I want to boot to?

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Samm

Posted 27 May 2005 - 03:39 PM

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If you had installed the second OS from inside the first one, into a seperate drive, you would already have a boot menu setup!

Anyway, in answer to your question - yes you can, its called dual booting & both 2000 & XP support this.

Can you confirm for me the following :

Are the OS's installed on the primary (first) partitions of the drives?

I assume the 'C' drive (win2000) is the master drive on the primary channel. Is the second drive on the same cable as a slave (I'm guessing it is from the drive lettering) or is it on a seperate cable from the first one.

Can you confirm that these are the only 2 hard drives you have in the system & that they are both standard IDE (ie not serial ata)?