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Old 06-20-2003, 06:44 PM   #1
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Question Dual Boot Xp Linux Seperate HD's


I Just Got A New Hd. And I Installed Xp On It. I Still Got my Old Hd 15gb, And Wanna Put Mandrake 9.0 On It. Just B4 I Do Anything I Just wanna Make Sure How Can I Do Dual Boot On a Seperate Drive .... Say If I just install the linux (Which is going on my Slave Hard Drive). When its all done, Will I Have the Windows Boot Option For my Master Hard Drive On LILO? ...Thanks in Advanced.
 
Old 06-20-2003, 06:52 PM   #2
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I'd strongly recommend putting linux on as the master drive, not windows. this way lilo will live on the linux drive itself, and so you won't ever need to touch the windows drive at all, so you can be very very sure it's safe. you might need to tell lilo to make the bios flip the drive id's around to trick windows into thinking it's on primary master after all, but that's simple enough. also means that you can reinstall windows every other day by physically swapping the drives over knowign that it won't affect the lilo boot records at all.

either way it's very possible, and not a problem.
 
Old 06-20-2003, 06:59 PM   #3
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Thanks man... Thanks Alot. .... The Admins can delete this thread if they wish for i know it must be a recoccuring question. Either way. Thanks
 
Old 06-20-2003, 07:00 PM   #4
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delete? no chance, all adds to the information here.
 
Old 06-21-2003, 12:21 AM   #5
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I just bought two removable hard drive caddy's and installed just one of the two trays....if I want Linux I slip in the Linux caddy and if I want Windows I just slip in the Windows caddy.

 
Old 06-21-2003, 01:41 PM   #6
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Or just do this:

Build a Hard Drive Switcher
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/p...425846,00.html

Or just buy this:
http://www.nicklock.com/

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