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krj15489
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_ 		7. February 2007 @ 16:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have my computer set up to dual boot from different partitions on my first hard drive and that works great but i also have a second drive that has xp pro and i dont know how i can boot from the second drive withought changing the way the drives are set up. right now both drives are set up on the same ide cable, with the second drive as a slave. any help on booting from my second drive would be great.
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Ripper
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 01:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You could set the BIOS to ask you which HDD to boot from at start up?

I think you can do that? Lol :-)
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krj15489
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 03:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i will look for that. thanks
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 03:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Let us know how you get on; cos I'm not completely sure, but I think I've heard that mentioned before. :-)
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gtjr_ph
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 05:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
goto bios boot sequence,


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Ripper
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 05:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
See, there ya go ;-)

I knew what I was talking about; honest. :-D
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krj15489
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 12:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks for your help but my bios doest have those options, its outdated. do you know how i can upgrade my bios?
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krj15489
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 12:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i trid to post pic and it didnt work, the only options i had in boot sequence was hard driveC disket and cdrom
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ddp
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 12:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
check the boot.ini in msconfig but probably will have to do a fresh install of xp onto 2nd hd.
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krj15489
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_ 		8. February 2007 @ 13:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i can try that, thanks
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GAMING COMPUTER - Intel q9550 @ 3.4ghz | EVGA GTX 260 core 216 | Gigabyte ds3l | 6gb Gskill DDR2 800 ram | Silverstone 700 watt psu | WD 640gb hdd | Seagate 300gb hdd | LG dvd burner | Samsung dvd burner | Antec p182 case | logitech 2.1 speakers | logitech g11 keyboard | Samsung 25.5in 1900x1200 monitor | 19in 1440x900 secondary monitor | Windows 7 64bit | SERVER - Gigabyte 785g motherboard | AMD Phenom 9650 | 6gb ram | three 1.5tb hdd | Seagate 1tb hdd | WD 750gb hdd | two 300gb hdd | Maxtor 200gb hdd | Ark rackmount case | CentOS 5.5
Steam name = "krj15489" alias = Jordan-k
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