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Dual Boot - XP on First Drive (SATA) Win 7 Second (IDE)
Greetings All,
I am running XP on a SATA HDD. I have installed Win 7 on a second partition with some problems. The main problem was random BSOD's. This I believe, I have traced back to the fact that the MoBo runs Nvidia chips. Have downloaded the updated Nvidia Win 7 chip drivers. So, I uninstalled Win 7 and removed boot loader via BCDEDIT.
What I would now like to try is to install Win 7 on a separate IDE HDD connected to the primary IDE controller. This is so I can sort out the Nvidia driver problem.
I can see problems with this. My questions are the following:
- What will I set the IDE HDD to be, Master or Slave?
- Then boot off DVD/ROM and then install Win 7 as normal onto IDE HDD.
- If yes, I take it that the Win7 bootloader will not be installed on the XP SATA HDD.
- If this is the case then I should be able to use EasyBCD to add the XP on the SATA HDD.
Most critical part of the whole deal will be to set the SATA HDD (with XP) to boot FIRST. I have been down this track before and the MoBo sets the IDE as Drive 0 (FIRST boot HDD).
I know that there is a simple answer to this. I just cannot see the forest for the trees at present.
Regards