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07-21-2009
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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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07-21-2009
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| | Re: Dual Boot Setup On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:46:56 GMT, "RandyS" <u53439@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >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. 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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07-21-2009
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| | Re: Dual Boot Setup andy wrote: Quote: Quote: >>I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup. >> Quote: >> >>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. 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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07-22-2009
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| | Re: Dual Boot Setup On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:08:32 GMT, "RandyS via WindowsKB.com" <u53439@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >andy wrote: Quote: Quote: >>>I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup. >>> Quote: >>> >>>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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07-22-2009
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| | Re: Dual Boot Setup Andy wrote: Quote: Quote: Quote: >>>>I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup. >>>> Quote: >>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. Again thanks for the help -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....dware/200907/1 |
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07-23-2009
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| | Re: Dual Boot Setup RandyS wrote: Quote: Quote: Quote: >>>>>I was reading thru the help you all gave DavidG on the dual boot setup. >>>>> Quote: >> >>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 |
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