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greynold   03-05-2008 at 03:15:46 PM

Hi,
Recently installed Seagate 500Gb SATA HDD on Gateway 500S, originally configured with Maxtor 80Gb IDE HDD. During install and Win XP Pro build on Seagate drive, I simply disconnected the power to the Maxtor HDD to avoid any potential conflicts. The Maxtor HDD has UBuntu Linux installed on it -- it's not configured for dual-boot.

My question is: Is is possible to enable dual-boot for 2 separate HDD's. The only dual-boot work I've ever done was for Win 98 and Win XP and I seem to recall it required that both OS's be installed on 2 separate partitions of the main HDD or, maybe that's all I had available at the time...
The only alternative I can see is to do if not directly possible via dual-boot capability, is to 'disconnect' power on one drive or the other depending on which OS you want to boot to -- might work but is really clunky.

Some details on the process if possible or links to information would also be just as appreciated.
Thanks,
Greynold

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Grumpy9117   03-06-2008 at 12:54:36 AM
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You should be able to switch the hard drive boot priority in the BIOS.

Grumpy

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greynold   03-06-2008 at 09:23:32 PM
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Thanks, that's what I was thinking would be the easiest solution.
Greynold

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