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Re: Dual Boot Hard Drive Switch


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  • Subject: Re: Dual Boot Hard Drive Switch
  • From: "psghome2002" <psghome@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 18:52:54 -0000
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Why not use standard NT/W2K/XP multi-boot options? Yes, they do
share a few files on the boot drive but everything else can be on
separate drives/partitions. I've run multi O/S's like this for years
with no problems (on occasions 4-5 separate copies of W2K).

Am I missing the point of what you want to do (unless the OS is non-
Microsoft)?

Paul.


--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark Marooth" <MMarooth@s...> wrote:
>
>
> I have used GRUB to Boot between 3 hard disks.  On one resided
Win200, another
> Win98 and the third Linux.
>
> A bit of a pig to set up but once done, all you need to do is
select the OS that
> you want and GRUB does the rest.
>
> I finally disposed of Windoze (Except SWMBO PC) and just edited
out the GRUB
> entries I no longer needed.
>
> So, If one of the OS's is to be linux, this would work (Not too
sure if GRUB
> would work in an all Windoze environment, probably not me thinks !)
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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>         Subject:     RE: [ukha_d] Dual Boot Hard Drive
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>
>
> The way I set this up for my Mum when she had lost some software
install
> disks on her old hard drive was via the BIOS.  Taught her how to
go in and
> flick the BIOS to either NONE or AUTO on the Primary IDE channel
depending
> on whether she wanted the new system or old system.  Easy and
Cheap if a
> little bit of a pain if doing regularly...teach her to keep track
of her
> software disks!!
> Cheers
> Allan
>
>
> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:39:45 +0100
> From: "Ben McCormack" <ben.mccormack@o...>
> Subject: Dual Boot Hard Drive Switch
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a friend that is looking for a hardware dual boot solution.
>
> He wants to run to OS's totally speratly, so when one is running
the
> other OS on the 2nd HD is inactive. The obvious way to do this
would be
> via HD caddies but there is not room in his case. So he is looking
for a
> hardware solution that will allow him to switch between HD's
>
> Any thoughts
>
> Regards
>
> Ben
>
>
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