XP Dual Boot across two physical HDD - Help Please

[Guest]

I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying to
accomplish.

Thanks,
Tara

 

[Claymore]

I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying to
accomplish.

Thanks,
Tara

Hello Tara,

Go to Start => Run and type in "msconfig" {without the quotes}
Click the BOOT.INI tab
Click the button 'Check all boot paths'

 

[db]

since the slave drive you
just added was formerly
a master, then you should
do a repair install on that
drive.

that way the o.s. can be resync'd
and a dual boot menu will be
created as well.

afterwards, the newly repaired
o.s. will be the default o.s. on
the boot menu. however, you
can modify the boot.ini later.


I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying to
accomplish.

Thanks,
Tara

 

[db]

since the slave drive you
just added was formerly
a master, then you should
do a repair install on that
drive.

that way the o.s. can be resync'd
and a dual boot menu will be
created as well.


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx

afterwards, the newly repaired
o.s. will be the default o.s. on
the boot menu. however, you
can modify the boot.ini later.


I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying to
accomplish.

Thanks,
Tara

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much, I will look into that.

~T

Hello Tara,

Go to Start => Run and type in "msconfig" {without the quotes}
Click the BOOT.INI tab
Click the button 'Check all boot paths'

 

[Guest]

db,

Thanks for your insight. I will look into this.

Regards,
~T

 

[Timothy Daniels]

since the slave drive you
just added was formerly
a master, then you should
do a repair install on that
drive.

This is absolute nonsense.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Gordon]

I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have
a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's
of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying
to
accomplish.

Thanks,
Tara

Just interested in WHY you would want to do this.......

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying to
accomplish.

There are 2 ways to accomplish this:
1) BIOS's Hard Drive Boot Order - put the old HD in jumpered as Slave,
the new HD jumpered as Master, both on the same IDE cable.
At startup, go into the BIOS and change the HD Boot Order to put
the HD of your choice at the head of the list, and the OS on that HD
will boot up.

2) Boot.ini menu - Your boot.ini file (at C:\boot.ini - which you may have to
unhide to view) on the OS partition of both HDs looks something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WinXP1" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect


Using Notepad, add another entry under "[boot loader]" with the
argument to rdisk being "1" instead of "0", and change the number of
seconds for the timeout to be something like 10 seconds. Thus, the
boot.ini for dual-boot would look like:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WinXP1" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WinXP2" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect

With this form of the boot.ini file on both HD's "active" partitions, it doesn't
matter
which HD is at the head of the HD Boot Order list - either one will have a
dual-boot
menu for you to choose one or the other OS to boot. Just remember that
"rdisk(0)"
designates the HD at the head of the list, and "rdisk(1)" designates the 2nd HD
in
the list.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Rock]

"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
"since the slave drive you
just added was formerly
a master, then you should
do a repair install on that
drive.

that way the o.s. can be resync'd
and a dual boot menu will be
created as well.

afterwards, the newly repaired
o.s. will be the default o.s. on
the boot menu. however, you
can modify the boot.ini later."

_______________________

Where did you get this? As Timothy said, what nonsense.

<snip>

 

[Rock]

db,

Thanks for your insight. I will look into this.

Don't bother. Look at Timothy's reply.

 

[db]

you're most welcome..

db,

Thanks for your insight. I will look into this.

Regards,
~T

 

[db]

please keep your
sarcasms confined
to your non MVP responses...

db,

Thanks for your insight. I will look into this.

Don't bother. Look at Timothy's reply.

 

[db]

I don't recall asking
for your unprofessional
opinion - M.V.P.
"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
"since the slave drive you
just added was formerly
a master, then you should
do a repair install on that
drive.

that way the o.s. can be resync'd
and a dual boot menu will be
created as well.

afterwards, the newly repaired
o.s. will be the default o.s. on
the boot menu. however, you
can modify the boot.ini later."

_______________________

Where did you get this? As Timothy said, what nonsense.

<snip>

 

[Rock]

"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
I don't recall asking
for your unprofessional
opinion - M.V.P.

"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
"since the slave drive you
just added was formerly
a master, then you should
do a repair install on that
drive.

that way the o.s. can be resync'd
and a dual boot menu will be
created as well.

afterwards, the newly repaired
o.s. will be the default o.s. on
the boot menu. however, you
can modify the boot.ini later."

_______________________

Where did you get this? As Timothy said, what nonsense.

<snip>

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]


Lol, but you got it, and Timothy's. Why? Because what you wrote is
nonsense.

 

[Rock]

"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
please keep your
sarcasms confined
to your non MVP responses...

"Rock"wrote

db,

Thanks for your insight. I will look into this.

Don't bother. Look at Timothy's reply.

______________________


I'll stop commenting when you stop posting nonsense. How's that for a deal?

 

[Galen Somerville]

I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the
drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have
a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't
seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's
of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying
to
accomplish.

There are 2 ways to accomplish this:
1) BIOS's Hard Drive Boot Order - put the old HD in jumpered as Slave,
the new HD jumpered as Master, both on the same IDE cable.
At startup, go into the BIOS and change the HD Boot Order to put
the HD of your choice at the head of the list, and the OS on that HD
will boot up.

2) Boot.ini menu - Your boot.ini file (at C:\boot.ini - which you may have
to
unhide to view) on the OS partition of both HDs looks something like
this:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WinXP1" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect


Using Notepad, add another entry under "[boot loader]" with the
argument to rdisk being "1" instead of "0", and change the number of
seconds for the timeout to be something like 10 seconds. Thus, the
boot.ini for dual-boot would look like:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WinXP1" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WinXP2" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect

With this form of the boot.ini file on both HD's "active" partitions, it
doesn't matter
which HD is at the head of the HD Boot Order list - either one will have a
dual-boot
menu for you to choose one or the other OS to boot. Just remember that
"rdisk(0)"
designates the HD at the head of the list, and "rdisk(1)" designates the
2nd HD in
the list.

*TimDaniels*

There are three ways to do it.
3) Install hard drive switch. I use the COMBOX from Troyka which spins only
one of my three hard drives.
so I can boot to Win98se, WinXP pro and Vista Business (Ugh)

Galen
P.S. I see that idiot is still posting in HTML.

 

[Rock]

I have a HD with XP and various applications installed. I removed the
drive
from the box, and replaced it with a new drive. I installed XP on the new
drive.

I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have
a
choice as to which drive to boot from.

Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't
seem
to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's
of
info on 2 different operating systems dual booting, and on different
partitions on the same drive, but nothing which matches what I am trying
to
accomplish.

There are 2 ways to accomplish this:
1) BIOS's Hard Drive Boot Order - put the old HD in jumpered as Slave,
the new HD jumpered as Master, both on the same IDE cable.
At startup, go into the BIOS and change the HD Boot Order to put
the HD of your choice at the head of the list, and the OS on that HD
will boot up.

2) Boot.ini menu - Your boot.ini file (at C:\boot.ini - which you may have
to
unhide to view) on the OS partition of both HDs looks something like
this:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WinXP1" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect


Using Notepad, add another entry under "[boot loader]" with the
argument to rdisk being "1" instead of "0", and change the number of
seconds for the timeout to be something like 10 seconds. Thus, the
boot.ini for dual-boot would look like:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WinXP1" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WinXP2" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect

With this form of the boot.ini file on both HD's "active" partitions, it
doesn't matter
which HD is at the head of the HD Boot Order list - either one will have a
dual-boot
menu for you to choose one or the other OS to boot. Just remember that
"rdisk(0)"
designates the HD at the head of the list, and "rdisk(1)" designates the
2nd HD in
the list.

Another way to do it is to use a 3rd party boot manager such as XOSL, BootIt
NG, or the boot manager that comes with Partition Magic.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Another way to do it is to use a 3rd party boot manager such
as XOSL, BootIt NG, or the boot manager that comes with
Partition Magic.

OK, there are non-Microsoft ways, including putting
each of the hard drives on a separate removable tray,
such as the "mobile racks" made by Kingwin:
http://www.kingwin.com/mobileracks.asp . With one
of these, you select which OS to run by selecting which
tray to slip into the rack. There are ones for SATA and
ones for PATA. If you go with SATA, you could use
one of these external enclosures as well:
http://www.kingwin.com/jt35eubk.asp

*TimDaniels*

 

[db]

the deal for being an MVP
is already in place, i.e.. "cheap"
customer service for Microsoft.

as they say, we and Microsoft
customer get what we pay for
when looking for q&a at this
site, including sarcasm, unprofessional-ism,
insults and piss poor selection by
the MVP program administrators...

oh wait, they have no real criterion
for being a dedicated contributor
in the Microsoft Volunteer Program.

what a shame and a sham.
"db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
please keep your
sarcasms confined
to your non MVP responses...

"Rock"wrote

db,

Thanks for your insight. I will look into this.

Don't bother. Look at Timothy's reply.

______________________


I'll stop commenting when you stop posting nonsense. How's that for a deal?