Dual boot? or not?

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From: Rogert (rogert_at_cinci.rr.com)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 07:04:29 GMT

Before I had just a WD120 gig HD that was/is a 5400 rpm drive. I added a new
WD160 gig HD at 7200 rpm. I was/am running XP Home and wanted to keep data
and OS seperate on the old and new HD, copy, at my leisure all the data I
wanted to keep from the old to the new HD -THEN- "wipe" the old and use it
simply as an archive storage drive. Western Digital support directed me to
use master/slave configuration. Fine but that just combined the 2 drive,
essentially into 1 280 gig drive w/1 XP os. I had files I wanted stuff from
but didn't want to inherit all the settings, adware, bulls%^t etc. I wanted
to use some settings on some programs and not some on others. Now it's kinda
all in the same "mess"
 My question is; is it too late to change configurations, whatever to go to
the type of setup I wanted in the first place?
 In other words go to the configuration that will allow me to boot from
either drive I want to, copy selective data back and forth then in the end
keep the second HD as just an archive/storage drive? Still seperate from the
new 160 gig primary drive?
 Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

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