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| Thread ID: 103596 | 2009-09-29 07:33:00 | Two HDDs. Can I have two OS's? | Johnnz (7246) | Press F1 |
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| 815101 | 2009-09-29 07:33:00 | Hi all, Just wondering whether I can boot from a slave drive or use "cable select jumper" to do so? I have two hard drives and both have different OS's on them. Can I have both of them installed in the computer and just set in Bios which one to boot from or is it not possible to do this? Thanks! |
Johnnz (7246) | ||
| 815102 | 2009-09-29 07:37:00 | Yes, you can! All you have to do is set up the bootloader right on one of the OS's, then when you boot select which OS to boot to. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 815103 | 2009-09-29 08:15:00 | Does it matter about the jumper connections? This is on a 8 (?) year old Hewlett Packard, Pentium III, running XP OS's. | Johnnz (7246) | ||
| 815104 | 2009-09-29 08:17:00 | Slave / master is better. Cable select doesnt always work. Once you install more than 1 OS, you'll have the option to boot from either. So it doesnt matter what hdd is the bootdisk in the BIOS | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 815105 | 2009-09-29 17:41:00 | So long as the second OS was installed while the first HDD was still connected and you chose to keep the original installation and install the new OS an another partition/hdd. If you disconnected the first HDD then put another one in to do the second installation then the bootloader wont have been written for both OS's |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 815106 | 2009-09-29 18:20:00 | Hmm, actually I took out the original HD when I installed the new os on the new HD just to make sure I wouldn't overwrite my original OS by mistake. Should still work since both OS's were loaded in the same machine/bios? | Johnnz (7246) | ||
| 815107 | 2009-09-29 19:20:00 | If you connect both drives in that case, only one OS will boot (the one on the master drive), as it doesn't recognise the other one and will boot itself. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 815108 | 2009-09-29 19:40:00 | Use BCD editor to create a dual boot loader with both drives installed. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 815109 | 2009-09-29 19:43:00 | Use BCD editor to create a dual boot loader with both drives installed. ... if the working OS is Vista or 7. IIRC it won't edit boot.ini. |
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