"Kate" wrote:
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> I have 2 HD's. One has XP Pro, the other Vista Home Premium.
> I want to dual boot. [.....]
>
> Must I have both OS on the same drive? Is there some not to
> complex way to use 2 drives?
> TY, Kate
The simplest way to dual-boot 2 hard drives with an OS already
independently installed on each is to use the BIOS to switch between
the 2 hard drives by "enabling" one or the other as the boot drive. In
some older BIOSes, in which you could set the hard drive boot priority,
the hard drive that you put at the head of the list would be the boot
drive. Just make sure that the partitions that have the BCD file (Vista)
and the boot.ini/ntldr files (XP) are marked "active" (use Disk
Management).
*TimDaniels*