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May 30th 04, 07:01 AM
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DUAL BOOT???
I am upgrading a machine that has two ATA drives, Master and Slave. The
mobo bios allows for alternate boot activated by using the ESC key after RAM check. Now if I do a diskcopy from C to D (I will be installing Win XP on C as my primary OS) will the discopy make the D drive fully bootable into the older Windows 98SE using an alternate boot??? NOte that I will be doing a clean install of XP onto C. thanks in advance dg 
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May 30th 04, 05:03 PM
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"davegood" wrote in message ... I am upgrading a machine that has two ATA drives, Master and Slave. The mobo bios allows for alternate boot activated by using the ESC key after RAM check. Now if I do a diskcopy from C to D (I will be installing Win XP on C as my primary OS) will the discopy make the D drive fully bootable into the older Windows 98SE using an alternate boot??? NOte that I will be doing a clean install of XP onto C. thanks in advance dg I use two hard drives in this fashion - my Biostar mobo allows you to choose which drive to boot from by pressing F9 buring POST. It will work, but you need to clone you current C drive over to yourD drive - I don't think diskcopy would work. I have always used Norton Ghost in DOS to clone drives, but others swear by Achronis TrueImage which I beleive you can use in Windows. You probably have Ghost lying around somewhere - it almost always comes free on motherboard driver disks... Graham
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May 30th 04, 06:16 PM
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"davegood" wrote in message ... I am upgrading a machine that has two ATA drives, Master and Slave. The mobo bios allows for alternate boot activated by using the ESC key after RAM check. Now if I do a diskcopy from C to D (I will be installing Win XP on C as my primary OS) will the discopy make the D drive fully bootable into the older Windows 98SE using an alternate boot??? NOte that I will be doing a clean install of XP onto C. thanks in advance dg XXCOPY is a free command line utility that will clone bootable W98 drives http://www.xxcopy.com
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