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.
Re: BootIt NG high level steps - best approach?? ...backup boot strategy.... As far as BING, I should tell you I've been using this software ... make managing your bootable options and partition management so much easier. ...drives) and the DATA partition on a mirrored array. ... (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
Re: 160 Gb drive in a removable caddy give "disk error press ctrl alt del" on boot ... But the 120Gb does boot.... so, you're working with only a single mobile rack, right? ... GB HDD it boots & functions just fine, ... The full capacity has always been seen of all drives it is just a boot ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
Re: how to change out system disk? ...Inaccessible_Boot_Device, when trying to boot from the new HD, but sometimes ...WinXP booted, you can still run Word, Quicken or whatever without having to ... following the primary partition and the first logical drive ). ... > logical drives in a single extended partition. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
Re: Dual booting ... of Microsoft's dual boot scenario.... The extended partition is not assigned a drive letter, ... BIOS reserves letters A and B for floppy drives,... If WinXP Setup... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: 2 drives needed to boot - how to fix ... my cloned drive and my system won't boot.... seems my system wants both hard drives to be able to boot. ... Which is your primary master disk - the old or the new disk? ... Could you, in effect, start over by making a fresh install of the XP OS ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
