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PBEHUGH

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September 10th, 2006 18:00

Dual boot xp on 2 hard drives ?

I installed xp home and xp pro on separate hard drive, xp home is partitioned in c: , d: and e:  . Xp pro when i installed it i thought that it whould show up as a c: drive because it was installed on a seperate hard drive , but is showed up as f: drive . When in the "my computer" on the xp pro i am able to open the folders in the c: d: and e: drive on the xp home OS. Is there a way to install the 2 hard drive so they are totaly indrpendent os each other or is this the way that they are normaly configured. Thanks in advance 
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    laz123

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    Posted September 11th, 2006 13:00

    As far as I know they both 'see' each other so can't act independently except if you disable 1 hd. Do you have 2 os options to boot from?
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    PBEHUGH

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    Posted September 11th, 2006 20:00

    Yes i have 2 OS options to boot from. Somone said that if i use a commercial partition software (partion magic, etc) the 2 OS will be independent and they will not be able to see each other.
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    mitb07

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    Posted September 11th, 2006 22:00

    i used partician magic on my old comp and it works fine with two OSs and they do work independently.
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    PBEHUGH

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    Posted September 11th, 2006 22:00

    Would i have to do a clean install and remove my fdisk partitions from both hard drives or could i use paertition magic to reformatt one of the hard drives that i have a OS on and reformat that drive with partition magic?
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    mitb07

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    Posted September 12th, 2006 00:00

    i dont know.
     
    when i did mine, i was working with a blank hard drive anyways, so i never tried to do it without formatting. sorry i couldnt help more, good luck

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