I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup.

First I have two HDD's both are IDE and split in half, one is WD 250 gig with
WinXP on it the other is a WD 160 gig with Win 7 RC on it. My MB is an MSI K9
with only 1 IDE socket so I have a PCI card that add's 2 more

If I have it right to make it a dual boot all I have to do is:

1. Connect the WinXP drive and the Win 7 drive one to the IDE and one on the
PCI card and run the Win 7 setup disk to repair and create the dual boot.

2. Or do I have to reload the Win 7.

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:46:56 GMT, "RandyS" u53439@uwe wrote:

I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup.

First I have two HDD's both are IDE and split in half, one is WD 250 gig with
WinXP on it the other is a WD 160 gig with Win 7 RC on it. My MB is an MSI K9
with only 1 IDE socket so I have a PCI card that add's 2 more

If I have it right to make it a dual boot all I have to do is:

1. Connect the WinXP drive and the Win 7 drive one to the IDE and one on the
PCI card and run the Win 7 setup disk to repair and create the dual boot.

2. Or do I have to reload the Win 7.

To simplify things, I would connect both drives to the motherboard IDE
connector. Jumper the Windows XP drive to master and the Windows 7
drive to slave. Then run Windows 7 repair startup.

andy wrote:
I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup.

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2. Or do I have to reload the Win 7.

To simplify things, I would connect both drives to the motherboard IDE
connector. Jumper the Windows XP drive to master and the Windows 7
drive to slave. Then run Windows 7 repair startup.

Will it work if I put the second drive on the PCI card, if not I will have to
put my 2 DVD's on the card and I wont have access to a dvd if the card goes
out. I've seen an adapiter that goes from IDE to SATA should I get a couple
and change things to SATA.

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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:08:32 GMT, "RandyS via WindowsKB.com"
u53439@uwe wrote:

andy wrote:
I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup.

[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]

2. Or do I have to reload the Win 7.

To simplify things, I would connect both drives to the motherboard IDE
connector. Jumper the Windows XP drive to master and the Windows 7
drive to slave. Then run Windows 7 repair startup.

Will it work if I put the second drive on the PCI card, if not I will have to
put my 2 DVD's on the card and I wont have access to a dvd if the card goes
out. I've seen an adapiter that goes from IDE to SATA should I get a couple
and change things to SATA.

It should work.

Andy wrote:
I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup.

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out. I've seen an adapiter that goes from IDE to SATA should I get a couple
and change things to SATA.

It should work.

Thanks I will try it in the morning and let you know what happens.

Again thanks for the help

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RandyS wrote:
I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup.

[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]

It should work.

Thanks I will try it in the morning and let you know what happens.

Again thanks for the help


Ok well to let anyone know it didn't work so I will have to find an adapter
that goes from ide to sata or get onother hdd to load both Win XP and Win 7
on but that will have to come later.

If anyone has another idea please let me know.

Thanks for the help

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