questions arise

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

but first a comment: I had a situation happen just over a year ago in which
I thought the HD might be failing ... and indeed it was, and did fail! Your
situation may be just a virus or corruption of some sort which can be
corrected, and hopefully that is the case.

The questions: if one has HDD S.M.A.R.T. capability in the BIOS should it be
activated?

Can SMART detect a potential HD failure as is being described in the post?

Must one use software to constantly monitor HD condition when using SMART
with XP?

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"Grant Anderson" <gpsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1142897027.325379@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have two hard drives, and the boot drive (with Windows on) is behaving
unreliably. Is it possible for me to install Windows XP on the other
drive, then choose to boot from there instead (so that if, in the course
of trying to fix the other drive, it goes down permanently I still have
a bootable OS)?

If so, what sort of problems would I face in doing so regarding
migration of registry settings and such? Would they all carry over no
matter which drive I booted off, or would I have to fix it manually?

Cheers,
Grant


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