One computer two HD drives. Son 'owns' one drive I 'own' the other.
Both drives have XP installed. When I am on the comp I boot from my
drive and when he is on he boots from his drive. Logic tells me not
without unplugging the cables which sort of defeats the object. Yes I
do have my own exclusive comp upstairs to answer the obvious answer of
get two computers. This is more an academic question than a necessity.
Thanks in advance.
I won't go into the practicalities of this idea, but you could have a
dual-boot; one XP o/s on each disk - each of which Wimdows will see as a
seperate partition, and password protect your own installation allowing your
son access only to his installation. You will have to reboot to get into the
other's os; but no cables need to be fiddled with.
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