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Hard Drive Switching

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by flaring_griever, 2004/02/26.

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  1. 2004/02/26
    flaring_griever

    flaring_griever Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello.

    I have two hard drives. one is 13 gig (Win ME), the other is 80 gig (Win XP Pro). Now heres my question. How do I switch from one hard drive to the other?:D
     
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    If they are both of the same type, PATA or SATA, You can get a front mounted rack which makes it easy to put the one in to run WinME and the other to run WinXP.

    One example is ViPowER. I have one of those but there are many others.

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    flaring_griever Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks for the rapid response.

    Both of my hard drives are IDE and what i want is when i startup my computer, I want it to ask me if you want to boot up with ME or XP?
     
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    flaring_griever - in your signature you say your PC is 'dual boot'.

    Did you do that the recommended way by installing XP on a system already running ME and put XP on a different partition?

    If not, please say exactly how you set the machine up (including which OS runs on what hard drive/partition) and we can give you instructions for getting a dual-boot menu to offer you a choice when you start the PC.
     
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    The signature is for another machine. heres how everything is setup.

    Hard drive 1 (IDE) 80GB: Windows XP, NTFS, Primary (MASTER) 4 Partitions, 3 extended, (ALL NTFS)

    Hard drive 2 (IDE) 13 GB: Windows ME FAT32 (SLAVE) No partitions except local disk.

    I have Partition Magic 8 and Boot Magic 7. Just said it to give you guys more ideas if needed. Everything connected alright.:D
     
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    Newt

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    Still need to know

    - which OS went on first
    - which OS runs on C:
     
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    The first hard drive had windows ME on it, then i upgraded to XP. It is on C drive.

    The second hard drive had ME on it and still has it. It is also on drive C.

    Just a thing to point out, when i start my computer up the drives are both detected and working like new.
     
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