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Configuring a two-hard drive system

Asked by npnp in Miscellaneous

Tags: boot, hard

We have a machine with a normal "internal" hard drive running Win 2000. The machine also has a removable hard drive bay. We have about 25 removable hard drives. We have about 25 different versions of Windows used by our customers all over the world.

I want to do this:

Wipe a removable drive clean (fdisk), then install any other operating system on it. After which: Select which hard drive to boot to and use as the machine's OS. (For complicated reasons, we do NOT want to partition one hard drive).

The only way I have been able to accomplish this is to open up the machine, plug and unplug the cabling to the two hard drives, and fiddle with the master/slave jumpers. Very tedious. There just HAS TO BE an easier way.

So: Question #1: The machine is running on its own internal OS (Win 2000). Korean Win 98 (or something) CD is plopped into the CD drive. HOW do I tell it to install to the OTHER (removable) hard drive??

Question #2: Having done that, HOW do I switch the machine to one or the other hard drive, and run the OS found there?

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Configuring a two-hard drive system

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Tags: boot, hard

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