A question on hard drives and operating systems.

[Subversal]

Can you have two operating systems (say Windows 2000 Server) on two seperate harddrives operate at the same time, simaltaneously in the same machine?

 

[damien6]

At the same time - no but in the same system yes. What are you trying/wanting to do?

 

[Subversal]

Well someone just told me they have a server running with two hard drives (both have Windows 2000 Ad. Server, but each installed seperately)... one HDD is the file server the other HDD is the web server.

 

[Subversal]

Can anyone clear this up for me? How can a system run two seperate operating systems at the same time? Also how can a system be a file server (being accessed) and a web server (being accessed) on separate hard drives work? This guy is hurting my head saying this...

 

[Sunner]

Not that I can possibly figure out why you'd wanna do this with servers, but I guess you could run VMWareVMware, assuming you could make everything work right with NIC's and such.

But I dont think anyone would ever run this as a server solution, considdering with servers, you typically avoid "tricky" solutions.

But to me it sounds like there's been a misunderstanding somewhere along the line.

 

[iknowcomputers2]

no, not at the same time, if you want to do what i think you want to do get a keyboard/video/mouse switch and build two computers.

you can't have two OS's going at the same time on the same computer.

 

[Subversal]

Okay... maybe he meant he's running a machine as both a file and web server... but from what he is telling me he's running two seperate HDD's each with two seperate OS's at the same time. Maybe he has the two HDD's but the second one is extended and running as his Web HDD... the primary as his file/distribution HDD. Probably didn't understand him.