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Selecting Hard drive to boot

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I have two hard drives in my pc, both have windows XP installed on individually and are bootable. Is it possible to choose to boot from the other drive which would be set as a slave? Perhaps by using a boot disk that would have a command line pointing to the WIN boot in the other drive?

Name: ham30
Date: November 15, 2004 at 14:00:48 Pacific

Reply:

Probably not. If the XP system was set up on another system as a C: drive, it will not work as a D: drive. If they are both setup as C: drives, you might be able to change the Bios to boot from the second drive. However swapping XP drives between systems is very iffy. The change in hardware gives the activation code fits.

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Name: ron
Date: November 15, 2004 at 14:43:42 Pacific

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you can boot a slave cloned disk by pressing F11 at startup

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Name: ham30
Date: November 15, 2004 at 16:37:29 Pacific

Reply:

Hey Ron, that's pretty cool. Where did you find that? I did a search and didn't have any luck. :-(

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