two hard disks together

[drska]

Recently I bought new hard disk and installed it into my computer.
Now I want to install additional OS onto this new hard disk, and also to give me option of which OS to load (new or old one).One important thing is that both OS-s are to be installed on C drive. (it means that I have to C drives, one not seeing other). Is this possible?? And how??

Thnx.

 

[wolluf]

When you say additional o/s - do you mean another copy of the same o/s, or 2 different ones? And which operating system(s) are they?

Assuming they're both flavours of windows, you can achieve your objective by a number of methods. My preferred would be to use a boot manager (

http://www.boot-us.com

is one I use - its free for personal use, but with restrictions - you'd need to buy it to boot from second hard drive - its not expensive, 15 Euros).

To set up - disconnect existing drive, connect new one and install o/s on it. Reconnect existing drive (which I'm assuming will now boot as primary master) and install boot-us (or other boot manager - Google for them if you want a free one with multi-disk boot capability) app. Run the app to create boot menu - its fairly straightforward (it should detect both your operating systems). You can save the menu to floppy, mbr or a spare partition slot (I'd recommend floppy, at least to start, and then mbr if you don't want to use floppy).

Boot machine - should now get menu - whichever you choose will be on its own C: drive (if you don't want the other o/s drive appearing at all, boot-us has option to hide it as part of the boot process).

HTH

 

[garebo]

I find that a system is usually more stable with going with a removable ide case and 2 hard drives with the os on each drive. Just pop in the one you want to use and change it when you want to use the other. Less setup concerns and more stability. Admittedly, an extra hard drive, but they are cheap these days.


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[garebo]

Sorry, forgot to point out, i am only giving you another option, not trying to tell you what to do.


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