What made it less than clear was the poor quality of the writing. Even
in the answer you've posted here, there are numerous ambiguities that
cause confusion to people without a tech background.
Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|I thought I was pretty clear but for you I will go over it again.......
|he has a 160gb HD with an OS on it.
|he has an 80gb HD which he will hook up as a slave to the 160 if it is a
|PATA drive or on another SATA connector if it is a SATA drive.
|He will install XP onto the 80 GB drive only......the 160 already has an OS
|on it.
|the XP installation will see the other OS on the 160 HD and create the dual
|boot when it installs onto the 80gb HD.
|XP will change the MBR on the 160gb HD to reflect the fact that he has 2
|OS..........ONE ON EACH DRIVE.
|
|If you need further clarification.........please dont hesitate to use
|Google....and the search terms "XP DualBoot"
|peter
||>I see. So he's doing a full install of XP on each of the drives.
|>
|>
|> Lady Dungeness
|> Crabby, but Great Legs!
|> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|>
|>
|>
|>
|> |no
|> |he already has a 160gb with an OS on it......he needs to hook up the 80gb
|> as
|> |a slave drive(PATA) or just hook it up to a SATA connector..if its a SATA
|> |drive.
|> |Then Install XP onto the 80gb drive where there is no OS installed.XP
|> will
|> |do the rest.
|> |peter
|> ||> |> I'd like to confirm:
|> |>
|> |> 1. Install XP on the 1st Hard Drive.
|> |> 2. Install XP on the 2nd Hard Drive - BUT - use Hard Drive #1 as the
|> |> install location. (So only boot files and registry entries are
|> |> created on Hard Drive #2).
|> |> 3. Then you have a single installation holding the XP OS, and a dual
|> |> boot, one for each HD, with the minimum boot & registry entries.
|> |>
|> |> ??? Is this right?
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> Lady Dungeness
|> |> Crabby, but Great Legs!
|> |> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|> |>
|> |>
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> |Hook your old drive up in the system......you did not specify wether
|> it
|> |> was
|> |> |PATA or SATA but I am sure you can figure that out.
|> |> |Then insert your XP CD and start the installation process picking the
|> old
|> |> |80gb HD as where to install to...........XP will see the other OS and
|> |> create
|> |> |the necesary Boot Files for the dual boot on the new 160gb
|> drive....you
|> |> will
|> |> |then be given a choice when you boot.
|> |> |Just remember that ALL of the boot files will be on the 160
|> |> drive...without
|> |> |it you will not be able to boot without a repair.
|> |> |peter
|> |> ||> |> |> Hi Gurus..
|> |> |> i have a problem in configuring dual boot..i have got 80gb hard disk
|> |> and i
|> |> |> installed
|> |> |> winxp pro in it ..unforunatley my hard disk was crashed so i gave it
|> to
|> |> |> the
|> |> |> data recovery agent,he took long time to get get it back and in the
|> |> mean
|> |> |> while i got another hard dsik 160 gb one i installed win 2003 server
|> in
|> |> |> it...now i got back my old hard disk 80gb one..now i want to make
|> them
|> |> |> dual
|> |> |> boot...is it possibale to it now...help me please..
|> |> |> thanks
|> |> |> srikanth
