courtney01
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I have XP installed on my SATA hard drive, and I just added my old IDE hard drive to the system for extra storage. I'm now thinking about trying out windows 7, and I want to dual boot XP from the SATA hard drive and windows 7 from the IDE hard drive. I found this general instruction online for dual booting from one hard drive.
http://www.downloadtube.com/blog/20...tallation-directly-from-xp-without-a-livedvd/
On the step where you choose which partition to install windows 7 in, will my IDE hard drive show up there?
If the installation goes well, then whenever I boot up my computer I should have the opportunity to choose which OS to run?
Is there a risk that I'll be losing any data from my XP hard drive, or that whenever I'm using whichever OS, it might interfere with the other OS?
http://www.downloadtube.com/blog/20...tallation-directly-from-xp-without-a-livedvd/
On the step where you choose which partition to install windows 7 in, will my IDE hard drive show up there?
If the installation goes well, then whenever I boot up my computer I should have the opportunity to choose which OS to run?
Is there a risk that I'll be losing any data from my XP hard drive, or that whenever I'm using whichever OS, it might interfere with the other OS?