Two hard drives and two operating systems

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  1. fpvgt

    fpvgt Member

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    I have two hard drives right both 40gb. One has windows xp pro and the other windows vista home premium. My problam is i cant choose what operatin system i wont to use when i boot. I know if its partciond it comes up automaticly what OS to use but with two harddrives i duno. When im in Vitsa i can see my xp harddrive and all my files if that helps so i know there plugd in right.the reason im wonting to swap between is just gameing reason's vista sucks for games.

    thanks in advance fpvgt
     
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    Vista sucks, period. Get rid of it, and use the hard drive for something useful.
     
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    just go to bios then choose which drive to boot first(boot sequence)
     
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    I am not sure if you are asking how one sets up a menu to choose from each time they boot up but if you are there is a way to set up a boot disk for your a drive and that will bring up a menu in DOS. There is also a program in DOS that sets up a menu for you after scanning the system. My keyboard also has a hot-key among the function keys (F-Mode F8) that also brings up a DOS menu of drives to select as your boot drive. Good Luck JV
     
  5. fpvgt

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    ye iv tried bios by choosing whicih harddrive to run but it dont seem to work any other ideas
     

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