two drives with WinXP

[bearman]

I made a clone of my main XP drive using Acronis True Image. The clone went
all right but Acronis advised me not to have both WinXP drives in the
computer when I boot up because one of the drives will become unbootable.
Does anyone know why this is?

Thanks

Bearman

 

[NoDVD+/-R]

Only one can boot up, a system drive will boot with one of your HDD set as
the bootable ie. "C:\" drive, the other one will only act as a Data drive,
ie. "D:\" drive.
Both drive has the same NT Loader (ntldr) file, unless you install windows
XP and instal it on the other drive, the installing process will add a boot
menu into the ntldr file so windows knows where the "Windows" is placed.
You can change the name of the menu so you can seperates between the 2
windows:

Before:

1. Windows XP Professional
2. Windows XP Professional

After:

1. Windows XP Professional on C drive
2. Windows XP Professional on D drive

Actually you can change or add the menu names anyway you like.

 

[Mike Walsh]

You can have more than one bootable drive. Change the BIOS to boot from the drive you want.