Re: Dual Boot Sweet Tip


"Uncle John" <unclejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
>

Why do I have this feeling that someday, somewhere, somehow you're gonna
mess this up :)

Seems just a little too "Rube Goldberg" for me. But hey, if it works for
ya, so be it. It does sound like it may be specific to your mobo, maybe
even BIOS firmware version.

Personally, I bought Bootit NG 5-6 year ago for $30, have received every
upgrade since then for NOTHING. I can boot across HDs, partition, hide
them, and setup as many complex configurations I like, with a lot less
effort. Plus manage partitions and backup/restore image copies without
having to resort to additional software.

But again, whatever works and satisfies YOU is all that counts.

Jim


> Ainsi dit. ansi soit!-
> Uncle John
>
>


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