dual-booting with two hard drives

[AvatarD]

Ok, so, here's the deal. For a number of different reasons I want to have two hard drives, both with their own copies of XP (one Home and one Pro) and all their own data inside of one rig, and I'm wondering if it's possible to dual-boot and be able to choose which hard drive and set of info I want to boot from? I found this article, which is pretty close to what I'm doing, I think. I'm wondering if anyone has any other thoughts, has tried anythinkg like this before, or thinks it's just not possible? One of my concerns is that the hard drive which is being relocated to the new rig is going to lose it (or more specifically, XP is going to lose it) when the hardware setup is completely different. Also, it is only a temp situtation, really only a week or two, and so I'm trying to figure out if there's an easy way around the problem besides changing all the boot.ini files. Has anyone ever heard of a boot loader program that could handle something like this? (kinda like linux but not i guess) Any ideas or comments would really be appreciated. THANKS![L=this]

 

[olds]

I can't think of one reason to do this but good luck with it.

 

[bobalong]

I would personnal install one version of XP set up hardware profiles and link them to user profiles.

Could you explain your reasoning as to why you require two versions of XP in a dual bootie??

 

[montag451]

try powerquest bootmagic or masterboot

 

[AvatarD]

Well, the reasoning is complicated, but basically I have two computers, two different users, and for a while I want to move both of the hard drives into one rig, the better of the two. It's temp, like 2 weeks, and then the original hard drive of the system is coming out and the new one is staying in. We basically only have room for one computer, we have two now, so we're going to use the better system for now with both hard drives. It might be way more trouble than it's worth, but I'm going to try. Thanks for the help though.

 

[olds]

Both mobos better be identical or it will probably never work.