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Dual Boot Setup
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. |
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Dual Boot Setup
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. |
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Dual Boot Setup
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. -- Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com |
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Dual Boot Setup
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. |
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Dual Boot Setup
Andy wrote:
I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] 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 -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....dware/200907/1 |
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Dual Boot Setup
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 -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....dware/200907/1 |