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dual boot from 2nd hard drive

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by krj15489, Feb 7, 2007.

  1. krj15489

    krj15489 Active member

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    i have my computer set up to dual boot from different partitions on my first hard drive and that works great but i also have a second drive that has xp pro and i dont know how i can boot from the second drive withought changing the way the drives are set up. right now both drives are set up on the same ide cable, with the second drive as a slave. any help on booting from my second drive would be great.
     
  2. Ripper

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    You could set the BIOS to ask you which HDD to boot from at start up?

    I think you can do that? Lol :)
     
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    ok i will look for that. thanks
     
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    Let us know how you get on; cos I'm not completely sure, but I think I've heard that mentioned before. :)
     
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    gtjr_ph Regular member

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    goto bios boot sequence,
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    See, there ya go ;-)

    I knew what I was talking about; honest. :-D
     
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    krj15489 Active member

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    thanks for your help but my bios doest have those options, its outdated. do you know how i can upgrade my bios?
    /media/hda4/BiosPic.JPG

     
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    i trid to post pic and it didnt work, the only options i had in boot sequence was hard driveC disket and cdrom
     
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    check the boot.ini in msconfig but probably will have to do a fresh install of xp onto 2nd hd.
     
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    ok i can try that, thanks
     

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