Multi hard drives boot. ok i have 2 hard drives one with win 7 home premium and the other with xp professional i want to be able to boot from the xp one with out changing the boot order in bios is that possible?. ok i have 2 hard drives one with win 7 home...

Can Vista on an external hard drive boot?. Hello everyone, I have a couple of question that I hope someone can answer. I have a laptop (2.5 IDE hard drive) with Windows XP loaded onto it. I also have another laptop with a SATA hard drive (that has the...

My hard drive won't boot. Hey guys I just assembled a pc and I did an NTFS format on the new hard drive, windows installed some files and restarted. the problem is that windows installation doesn't boot from hard drive after the install. I get the "a disk...

computer. my old drive is also a wd caviar but i think its 5200 rmp but also 250 gb when i went to boot from the old drive (both plugged in at the same time) it never got past the boot from cd line of txt that shows before it goes to boot from the hard drive....

Hiding hard drives, other than boot drive from limited u. How does one hide one or more disk drives in XP (stand alone computer w/internet) for only limited users but show all for administrative rights users. I would like this process to be automated at...

XP Won't Boot WIth Large Hard Drive. Hello, Hardware is Dell Inspiron 9300, Windows XP MCE + SP2. I installed a 250GB WD hard drive in January 2008, and removed the existing 80GB drive. The new drive is IDE, as this seems to have been the last Inspiron...

Installed new hard drive ... no boot data. I installed windows 7 on one of my two non-raid sata hard drives with vista on the other drive. Both worked fine. Transferred data from vista drive to windows 7 drive. Removed vista drive, now windows 7 won't boot....

whats causing the board to ignore my hard drive when booting.. This morning i turned on my PC and got to the second screen and the computer tried to boot off the CD/DVD instead of the hard drive like normal. I've checked the BIOS, the hard drive is detected...

Boot From External Flash Hard Drive. I want to create an external hard drive that is a clone of my laptop hard drive that I can also boot from. I essentially want to be able to pull out my on-board hard drive and boot from the external flash hard drive in...

Hard Drive Boot up Problem. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Just before July Fourth I started receiving this message on my Dell dimension 4300 with XP proffessional on it. My system originally arrived with a western...