Could do with some advice on a boot setup.

[TheBigCheese]

Afternoon all

The missus currently uses Vista 64 as her work/games/everything else machine but it's getting a bit slow for work use so I was thinking of giving her a clean install of Windows 7, setup the work programs she needs and she can go back to Vista for gaming etc.

What I don't want to do it create a new partition on the Vista drive, it could end up being more trouble more than it's worth so I was wondering how else I could do it.

The obvious answer would be to leave the side of the case and plug/unplug each drive as it's needed but I was hoping for something a little more elegant and safer than that!

Is it possible to set an eSATA drive as a boot drive with Windows 7 on it?

Can I have both boot drives in the machine as select which to boot from at POST?

I've never done it before so I'm rather clueless about it.


Thanks in advance for any hints.

 

[lurkio]

Is it possible to set an eSATA drive as a boot drive with Windows 7 on it?

yes it is , hitting F12 on most mobos at post will bring up the boot options
menu and you can select which HD to boot off.


What it is also possible to do is use windows boot loader to give you
a simple menu option at boot time to select which hd to run from (can also use a default that will auto load if nothing selected)

Easybcd is a good util to allow you to mess with boot options ( I have 4 different OS on this machine)

Good luck

 

[TheBigCheese]

Thanks lurkio, that is EXACTLY what I was wanting, couldn't be happier with that bit of genius software!

Thanks very much, made my day!