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Dual booting XP with separate drives

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greyeyezz

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I would like to create a gaming drive with XP pro, video and sound card drivers, a few game's and nothing else. My current drive 160G, sata has XP pro and all my programs. The gaming drive is my 80G spare sata. Will windows see both bootable drive's during boot up? How would i select which to boot from? Is there a way to set this up when i'm reformatting the 80G drive? Thanks.
 
Actually, dual booting 2 installations of WinXP is a lot easier than dual booting WinXP and Linux.

This is how I would do it:
1. Format the spare drive (I would give it a volume label to make it easier to ID during the install)
2. Boot from the WinXP CD
3. Install WinXP on the spare drive
4. When the install is done, Windows will give you a choice of which version (which drive)

You can even go into the boot.ini file afterward and change the labels that appear in the menu, which is the default, and how long it waits before booting to the default.

Good Luck.
 
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