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want to have 3 OS on 2 hard disk..

Hello everyone!I just need ur help..
I had 1 80 GB harddisk on which I have WIndowXP and I bought a new one of 320 GB on which I want to install both LINUX 5 and WindowsXP. But the problem is when I installed LINUX n windows on the new disk by making a 50 GB partition(for windows and the left for LINUX) my old XP contents are not present and I want to use the LINUX and Windows in new disk seperately as when I boot the system the bootloader should show me 3 different OS like

REDHAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.0
others

and in other I should have both Windows separately.

little help will be appreciated..!
thank U in anticipation..!!
cheers

Your windoze problem, is just that, XP and most windoze flavours need to be installed on the 'c' drive, ie the first partition on the first IDE drive. That has to do with the way windoze boot record works. It may be possible to install a second windoze on another partition, but you will need to change the MBR, to a boot manager that can boot windows from a non standard location.

Linux you can install any where you like. When you install linux, with a windoze system already installed, the MBR is replaced with Grub, or Lilo. ( usually grub ). It will find the windoze install, and add a record so windoze will boot.

What you could do, is run a virtual machine on Linux, and install a second windoze to the virtual machine. That will work, and allow you to run windoze, and linux at the same time. I use Sun's virtual box for that.