Dual boot system of Windows XP Pro and Windows XP Pro from 2 HDD's

Hi,
I've explored Windows XP Pro OS system and a PC. I'm glad to see many
improvements in hardware and software.
My situation was such that I've thought of precaution in not loosing
system setup files in Windows XP Pro. This prompted me for carefull
preparation and action in deploying clean Windows XP Pro installation. I'm
aware of license agreement terms. For that purpose I have 30 day trial of
Windows XP Pro.
So I've got to a point where I've had an old Windows XP Pro installation
on one HDD and I've had an emergency clean install of Windows XP Pro on other
HDD. Both HDD are bootable and booted fine as Primary Masters. Then I
imagined a system (convinient for system file and setting migration) with
Windows boot loader to boot from one HDD's OS to other HDD's OS.
This prompted me to look at boot.ini. I've edited added line to boot.ini
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Clean Install of Microsoft
Windows XP Pro" /fastdetect
System did not boot to Primary Slave HDD. I've received an error message.
My question. Is there a microsoft boot loader which would boot Primary
Slave's HDD's Windows XP OS. In other words, I imagine a system in which I
would manually select option - Clean Install of Microsoft Windows XP Pro.
This would prompt Primary Slave's HDD Windows XP Pro OS to boot. This imply
that Primary Master HDD's Windows XP Pro OS files would not be used at all
(after OS booted to Primary Slave HDD's OS) and in case of failure of Primary
Master's HDD I would be able to get (without physically openning a PC) to
Primary Slave's OS.
Is there a quick way of configuring Primary Masters HDD's Windows XP Pro
Operating System.
Thank You,
Lauris
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