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Multiboot HDD-W7 + HDD-XP + SSD-W7
I have an idea I'de like to bounce off the experts here - please excuse if its silly - I'm still learning - because I hope to learn if it is - or want to understand if it is not . . . . .
Presently I have XP(HDD) and W7(HDD) setup as a dual boot system and all is running very good.
I propose to add a SSD to run W7 from to step up the speed ladder.
Have done a lot of reading and thinking - do you think the following would work? (Yes I know AHCI is not an option and if you see my previous thread you'll see I am happy to live with that.)
Add SSD to the system using spare SATA lead and power lead.
Boot into XP and run EaseUS or whatever to clone the dormant W7(HDD) partition to the SSD.
Boot into W7(HDD) and run EasyBCD to add W7(SSD) Partition to MBR?
I assume this will now offer me 3 OSs at boot stage. All SATA drives will be IDE as I understand XP prevents anything AHCI.
Reboot and select W7(SSD) to run.
That's it - or not
The above seems a nice easy way to achieve what I want, ultimately I guess I will run just W7(SSD) cos it will be the best, with an occasional venture into XP (decreasing with time) until ultimately its just W7(SSD) and the other partitions can be freed up for more storage.
Can you think of any reason why this would not work or might not work - and if not - an explanation would be very much appreciated.