One XP on Master and one on slave will I have problems?

On Mar 29, 9:18*am, DJW wrote:
I am about to add a hard drive as a cable select (slave middle of the
ribbon wire) that has a working XP pro on it will I have a conflict-
ion with the copy of XP pro on my master HD? Is it in the BIOS setup
where the boot order of the hard drives is located? Will my computer
still boot from the master as I want it too. During the operation of
the computer might things become confused as to which system in parts
to use? And if I did want to boot once in a while from the OS on the
Slave is that possible and how would I do it?

does the bios only select cd, hd or floppy but not which one to boot
from if you have more than one?

"DJW" wrote in message ...
On Mar 29, 9:18 am, DJW wrote:
I am about to add a hard drive as a cable select (slave middle of the
ribbon wire) that has a working XP pro on it will I have a conflict-
ion with the copy of XP pro on my master HD? Is it in the BIOS setup
where the boot order of the hard drives is located? Will my computer
still boot from the master as I want it too. During the operation of
the computer might things become confused as to which system in parts
to use? And if I did want to boot once in a while from the OS on the
Slave is that possible and how would I do it?

does the bios only select cd, hd or floppy but not which one to boot
from if you have more than one?

Most BIOS that I've played with allow you to choose which hard drive, CD, etc. you want to boot from first. For example,
if one drive is a Seagate and the other a W-D, you can select the W-D as the boot drive, as long as you have the jumpers
set to Cable Select, and not as Slave or Master, and even though the W-D is on the middle plug, IIRC. It's been a while
since I've had an EIDE/PATA drive as my boot drive; mine now are both SATA. If I'm wrong about that, I'm sure someone
will correct it.
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SC Tom