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Hi, I have 2 hard drives one for which I just backup onto, and I wanted to install xp on the second hard drive just for testing stuff when I want to. My hard drives are both 80gb S-ATA drives so I just want to know if I can have it so the computer will automatically boot up into the first drive and straight into windows like it does now, but if I want I can choose to boot into the other drive. I don;t want it so I have to choose which windows installation to boot into every time, just when I do want to choose (Like when you press F8 and you can choose to boot into safe mode etc.)
I am using Xp home, but I also have a version of profesional if that is any different in regards to booting.
09-18-2004 07:52 AM
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RE: Dual OS's
You can just install Windows XP right now, and then, in config panel change the boot options so that it doesn't display the screen unless you press F8 at boot to bring it up.
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09-18-2004 08:07 AM
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When you say Config Panel wher eexactly do you mean
09-18-2004 09:08 AM
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Start => Settings => Control Panel => System => Advanced (tab) => Startup and Recovery: Settings => Select default operating system, uncheck both boxes (Time to display ...).
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09-18-2004 09:27 AM
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Thanks, il try it out and see how it goes.
09-18-2004 09:36 AM
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                look at this website for Dual-booting or you can Google on Boot Loaders http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ there is another called Lilo to . also another one i think is called System Commander . also look through this    http://www.google.com/search?q=boot+loaders&start...=org.mozilla:en-US:official
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look at this website for Dual-booting or you can Google on Boot Loaders http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ there is another called Lilo to . also another one i think is called System Commander . also look through this    http://www.google.com/search?q=boot+loaders&start...=org.mozilla:en-US:official

There a tad advanced for what he wants :D

Just use install windows XP on both disks and follow lhunath instructions :D
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09-18-2004 10:42 AM
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I'd suggest vmware workstation (http://www.vmware.com), it allows you to create virtual machines that can run any other OS within your current OS.
Vmware is indeed very good, but getting it to work isn't just something a home-user can do easily, I recon. Though it isn't really that hard. And yes, Win98 will be forgotten before you know it once you have XP... Who would even want 98 if they have XP anyway?
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09-18-2004 12:41 PM
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O.P. RE: Dual OS's
Well I want to run 2 copies of XP, I just have some certain things that willl NOT run under service pack 2 and I want to keep it installed so I figured I would install xp on the second disk and just put on what I need to run these programs, and I could also using it for testing crappy programs to keep things cleaner on my regular drive. I just wanted to make sure I could have the option of which windows instalation I wanted to boot into without losing the convenience of just turning the computer on and going straight to windows.

I will try lhunath's method tommorow and see how it goes. Thanks to everyone who posted :)

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09-18-2004 01:33 PM
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Yeh works perfectly thanks for your help guys
09-19-2004 02:37 PM
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