Ok to run Linux and WinXP in seperate hard drives?

[hube235]

I've been checking around the Linux distros lately and many of them have caught my attention, (the beryl pluggin is especially useful looking). I was wondering, in an AMD AM2 system, if I dedicated one hard drive to one operating system and the other OS to another drive, will I be able to run them without problems if I assign whichever drive as boot drive?

For example, if I want to run WinXP, I'll boot from HDD A
for a linux distro, I set the boot priority to HDD B

Will that work?

 

[Pirotech]

Hi
Yep, there are no proplems.

But then my friend installed oses to different hds (SATA and IDE) he had problem: SATA drive didn't boot as a master, but IDE drive was ok.
So, I think such problem was coz of friend's hd features.

 

[EagleKeeper]

A boot loader installed on the primary drive may solve the problem of having multiple OSs.

Have the IDE contain the boot loader and it should be able to pull the Linux from the secondary SATA drive.

 

[hube235]

bump and thanks for your input, both of you!!

 

[hube235]

another else like to share their experiences?
bump

 

[Hyperblaze]

Got two sata drives. One has Windows, one has Linux. Never had any problems

 

[dealmaster00]

Yep, you'll be fine.