Re: Dual boot using 2 hard dirves

set BIOS so that CD is 1st boot device
Place XP CD in
Reboot and watch for message" to boot from CD push any key"
push any Key
XP installation will start....pick NEW installation and then pick the HD you wish to install on.
Follow the instructions ....the dual boot should be automatically created and show up when your installation is finished and you reboot.
Be sure to set an installation directory name that signifies which installation is which...like XP2
and good luck
peter

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"Jack" <Jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:65295C6C-9334-4E6D-9915-796B97782741@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I still haven't got an answer to my question "How do I install a copy of XP
Home on my D: Drive?".
I realize that I cannot have two copies of XP running at the same time.
Neither can I get both scanners to work using XP including unplugging one and
plugging in the other, HP spent a week trying to resolve the issue and
couldn't. Therefore, my solution is to install XP on the D: drive, it is
already on the my C: drive. I would install one scanner on the C: drive and
the 2nd scanner on the D: drive. Then when I need to use my 2nd scanner, I
would reboot to the D: drive, scan the documents/photos/etc and when I am
done reboot to the C: drive.
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"Leonard Grey" wrote:

A computer can only boot one operating system at a time, no matter how
many copies of the OS are on the machine. Therefore, installing extra
copies of Windows does not make it possible to use two scanners at the
same time. The link explained why. You have to unplug the USB cable from
scanner #1, then plug in the USB cable for scanner #2, et. al. A pain in
the tuchus.

There are ways to have two (or more) scanners active at the same time,
but they're not exactly easy. One way is to plug each one into it's own
computer, obviously. Another way could be to have one scanner on the
network and another attached directly to a computer. Another possibility
might be two run a second copy of Windows XP in a virtual environment,
but I don't know enough about virtual computing to say whether this
would work.
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Jack wrote:
> I understand that I can only use one at a time. Maybe a better > statement
> would be to be able to boot from the C: and reboot to the D: drive.
> How do I install XP Home on the D: drive.

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