Installing an OS from secondary hard drive?

[wakawaka]

Is it possible to install an operating system from another hard drive in a system? Hmm, I think that makes sense. Basically, I do not have a dvd burner, but have 3 hard drives. Is there any way I could do this? Make the hard drive act like a cd drive? I will be wanting to dual boot.

My hard drives are
250gb <---possible location of second OS
30gb
80gb <----one that the main OS is on right now

if that matters and the operating system will be a "form" of Windows

 

[Matthias99]

You can use a utility like DAEMON Tools (in Windows) to make a CD image look like a CD drive. Most Linux/UNIX systems can mount whatever you want wherever you want. I don't know of a way to make a Windows-based system boot from a CD image stored on a hard drive, though.

if that matters and the operating system will be a "form" of Windows

I hope you have a "license" for it, then.

 

[wakawaka]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
You can use a utility like DAEMON Tools (in Windows) to make a CD image look like a CD drive. Most Linux/UNIX systems can mount whatever you want wherever you want. I don't know of a way to make a Windows-based system boot from a CD image stored on a hard drive, though.

if that matters and the operating system will be a "form" of Windows

I hope you have a "license" for it, then.

Well, I'll be buying the license for the product in 2006 or so

I guess the only possible way here might just be to buy a dvd burner...bleh..Dang my curiosity and its costs :laugh:

 

[alfa147x]

say u were trying to boot of a wilndows vista dvd, you could but in to windows like normally then mount the image the copy all the files of to the blank dive and try to boot off of that.

tell me if it works (by means of PM)