One XP on Master and one on slave what will boot?

[DJW]

I am about to add a hard drive as a cable select (slave middle of the
ribbon wire) that has a working XP pro on it will I have a conflict-
ion with the copy of XP pro on my master HD? Is it in the BIOS setup
where the boot order of the hard drives is located? Will my computer
still boot from the master as I want it too. During the operation of
the computer might things become confused as to which system in parts
to use? And if I did want to boot once in a while from the OS on the
Slave is that possible and how would I do it?
does the bios only select cd, hd or floppy but not which one to boot
from if you have more than one?

 

[MotoFox]

And it came to pass that David H. Lipman delivered the following message
unto the people, saying~

Quadantary

Quaternary.

 

[BillW50]

In

From: "MotoFox"



Thank you for that correction.

Who comes up with these words (tertiary and quaternary)? In electronic
engineering class, we used more simple and logical terms.

Drive 0 - first drive (master)
Drive 1 - second drive (slave)
Drive 2 - third drive (master)
Drive 3 - fourth drive (slave)

 

[Char Jackson]

Who comes up with these words (tertiary and quaternary)? In electronic
engineering class, we used more simple and logical terms.

Drive 0 - first drive (master)
Drive 1 - second drive (slave)
Drive 2 - third drive (master)
Drive 3 - fourth drive (slave)

I hope that wasn't in an engineering class. ;-) That kind of beginner
information belongs in a PC Systems 101 class.