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need two instances of windows 7 on 2 seperate ssd drives

i have a dell laptop with 2 ssd drives.

i would like to:

have my "work" windows 7 installed on one drive and my "personal windows 7" installed on another.

i would like to be able to choose which would i boot up from...( i own acronis disk director if that helps)

i would also like to have both drives encrypted (with truecrypt if possible)...

is this possible...?

thanks in advance
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sorry..i should have been clearer... i have managed to do this much...  my problem is when i encrypt the drives with truecrypt... t seems to encrypt the boot partition which messes up the trucrypt boot options...
I assume you're not using Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise?  And that the laptop doesn't have a TPM?
just using windows 7 professional so i cant use bitlocker....it does have TPM though...
And I'm guessing you don't want to upgrade (Windows Anytime Upgrade).  I've not swapped between drives, but I have used BitLocker and not had a problem pulling a drive and putting another (non-bitlockered) drive in it if they have a TPM.
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this is a bit cumbersome but it works (not using acronis...hust the bios boot manager...

thanks for the help...