Dual boot from different drives

Spinal2k2

Spinal2k2

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I have 2 1tb drives in my PC.

The new main drive has win 7 installed on it, the 2nd older drive which is a backup drive i installed Win XP onto a 10gb partition.

BIOS boot settings are DVD Drive, First HDD, Second HDD.

I also have the boot overide option - select a drive in the BIOS and it restarts and goes to boot from that drive.

When i select the Drive that has Win XP on, it wont it just goes off and boots from the windows 7 drive.

How do i get these 2 to dual boot - from different drives.

(the only reason i need the winxp boot is a printer i use only has drivers that have support upto XP).
 
rather than going into the bios, you can typically press a key on startup (F12 on my board) to choose which drive to boot from.
 
no matter which drive i tell it to boot from, it always boots the windows 7 drive. (unless i choose the dvd drive if it has a disc in it will boot from that)
In the past when i had them installed on the same drive on separate partitions i used to get a select an operation system to boot from menu.

But on seperate drives they just seem to ignore each other lol, and the win 7 drive boots.
 
richthomuk said:
Go to MSconfig and go to the boot tab, you should get options there to make it all easier for you and get it how you want.
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tried that aswell, the only options is each OS shows its self, the option in device manage for startup to display a list of OS etc was enabled on toh installs
 
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