Re: XP Home(SP2) on 2 hard drives


<mooky9669@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, here's the deal...looks like I am getting a new PC soon that comes
with XP Home SP2...I am currently using the same OS on the PC I
currently have. The drive that comes with the new machine is a serial
ATA and this one I'm on is IDE. I wanted to know that of I set my IDE
drive as a slave and keep my current operating system on it would it be
recognized and would I be able to boot to the master and then still
recognize the slave to be able to use it for storage and drag files to
the master? The reason I'm wanting to do this is so I don't have to
burn a bunch of CDs with my backup files and then do a reformat of the
drive before installing. Also I am not looking to boot from the slave
as I just want to set it up to boot the master and still be able to
have access to the 2nd drive for storage and moving files to the master
drive. If this is possible, would I have to set permissions for files
and folders on the slave drive that I want to move or have access to ?
Also, I'm assuming I'd have to set the boot options in BIOS??? I hope
someone can help me out. I'm planning ahead here so I know what to do
when I get my new system. One more thing, how do you set the IDE jumper
to slave?


That should work fine, also if both PC's have network cards you could buy a
twisted cable and network them together. To set the jumpers look on the
drive it's self for instructions. If there are none then look on the drive
manufacturers web site for instructions.

Brian


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