Can I Run 2 Os

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okay i currently have XP installed on my HD i want to put another drive which will be a slave drive in. On that slave drive I want to know is it possible to put win2k on it and run both OS so u can chose them when it starts up i cant work out how to do it!!

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dammit it double posted!!

can a mod delete this please!!

[spudlover]

I have 2 hdd's one, with XP Pro and one with Win2k3. XP is installed on the primary drive, so by default, it always boots with that, if I want to change it, I go into BIOS at startup and change the boot squence, so it looks at IDE-1 (the 2nd hdd) rather than IDE-0 (the first one).

[Wolfmight]

Check out Virtual PC also, that program will save you alot of trouble.
Installs an o/s virtually inside your o/s. (installes that whole o/s to 1, yes 1 file. you can save it your documents or wherever)

[Los]

also do some searching on www.computing.net - im sure it will have everything that you need there...very good site...

[spudlover]

Originally posted by balamm+19 April 2003 - 14:34--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (balamm @ 19 April 2003 - 14:34)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--spudlover@19 April 2003 - 14:26
I have 2 hdd&#39;s one, with XP Pro and one with Win2k3. XP is installed on the primary drive, so by default, it always boots with that, if I want to change it, I go into BIOS at startup and change the boot squence, so it looks at IDE-1 (the 2nd hdd) rather than IDE-0 (the first one).

Are they both primary and active? They must be I guess. You can do it that way on some systems but with multi on both or one of the disks and a dumb bios you&#39;d run into trouble. Are you using cable select or master/slave settings at the drive ? [/b][/quote]
No, only IDE-0 is primary. Of course, when I switch to IDE-1, that becomes primary, but I don&#39;t have to unplug anything, i.e. change jumpers. The way they&#39;re plugged in dictates master/slave atm.