Dual Boot Sweet Tip

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For those interested in dual booting from different or twin identical OS I
have happened on the following neat way of doing it:

1 Two disks master and slave, about same size. In my case SATA 74 GB
Westinghouse Raptor

2 Windows XP Pro installed with all apps on Master=Disk 0
3 In Windows use CasperXP to diskcopy Disk 1 to Disk 2 (Windows 1 = Bios 0)
4 Reboot, set the bios with Slave=Disk 0 as first had disk boot priority,
set Boot from CD as the first general boot device
5a Leave the Windows CD in the Optical Drive and reboot take care not to
touch a key while rebooting or the CD will be fired up, the PC will boot
into the master Disk
5b Take the CD out and Reboot. The PC will boot into the slave disk
6 The slave disk in my case for backup is updated nightly by Casper XP
scheduled copy (System Restore has to be disabled on the slave to be able to
diskcopy properly.

The behaviour of being able to select which hard disk will may be specific
to my Gigabyte motherboard and Award bios, but the system will work, ;less
sweetly simply but switching the hard disk boot priority in the bios before
booting

Ainsi dit. ansi soit!-
Uncle John


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