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XP O.S.
I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? |
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Hi rcfrgf,
yes, you can. If I were you, the way I'd do it would be to disable the current hard drive using the BIOS setup program, then you can feel free installing XP from an installation cd on to the second drive. Alternatively - you could use cloning software to simply copy everything on the first drive to the second and then with a minor alteration of the boot.ini file to include an extra entry for the second drive, you can then boot from either copy. -- Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. "rcfrgf" wrote in message news I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? |
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"rcfrgf" wrote in message
news I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? Do you mean you would like XP to simultaneously be on *both* drives? If so, why? |
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Why?
Two installations of Win, require two licences "rcfrgf" wrote in message news I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? |
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DL wrote:
Why? Two installations of Win, require two licences But a clone or image of an install doesn't. Why? Alias "rcfrgf" wrote in message news I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? |
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Dear Tim, Your answer is well taken. I would like to have desktop icons for the drives or a quick access to the second drive through the first(C) drive or maybe the way you say. Thank You, RCF "Tim Meddick" wrote: Hi rcfrgf, yes, you can. If I were you, the way I'd do it would be to disable the current hard drive using the BIOS setup program, then you can feel free installing XP from an installation cd on to the second drive. Alternatively - you could use cloning software to simply copy everything on the first drive to the second and then with a minor alteration of the boot.ini file to include an extra entry for the second drive, you can then boot from either copy. -- Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. "rcfrgf" wrote in message news I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? |
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The reasons for having two simultaneous copies of Windows on two separate
hard-drives are painfully obvious (to me, anyway) - One is hard-drive failure or (more commonly) OS System (Windows) failure. I've never had a harddisk fail on me, yet, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen some time. I have two identical drives with everything regularly cloned from one disk to the other. If there's something wrong with Windows not starting on the first then I have a couple of options open to me. I could just boot from the second and attempt to fix the problem from there or clone the backup drive back onto the first. Either way, my data is safe. -- Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. .. "Daave" wrote in message ... "rcfrgf" wrote in message news I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? Do you mean you would like XP to simultaneously be on *both* drives? If so, why? |
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Tim Meddick wrote:
The reasons for having two simultaneous copies of Windows on two separate hard-drives are painfully obvious (to me, anyway) - One is hard-drive failure or (more commonly) OS System (Windows) failure. I've never had a harddisk fail on me, yet, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen some time. I have two identical drives with everything regularly cloned from one disk to the other. If there's something wrong with Windows not starting on the first then I have a couple of options open to me. I could just boot from the second and attempt to fix the problem from there or clone the backup drive back onto the first. Either way, my data is safe. I trust that the drive you're not using is disconnected from the motherboard and power supply when you're not using it. Alias |
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Of course it's not. Can you not see the use of having two hard-drives
installed at the same time? Many self-help books on computing advise the use of a second "back-up" drive. It'd be pretty dumb thing to do to have to reconnect the drive every time I wanted to perform a back-up? -- Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. "Alias" wrote in message ... Tim Meddick wrote: The reasons for having two simultaneous copies of Windows on two separate hard-drives are painfully obvious (to me, anyway) - One is hard-drive failure or (more commonly) OS System (Windows) failure. I've never had a harddisk fail on me, yet, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen some time. I have two identical drives with everything regularly cloned from one disk to the other. If there's something wrong with Windows not starting on the first then I have a couple of options open to me. I could just boot from the second and attempt to fix the problem from there or clone the backup drive back onto the first. Either way, my data is safe. I trust that the drive you're not using is disconnected from the motherboard and power supply when you're not using it. Alias |
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Tim Meddick wrote:
Of course it's not. Can you not see the use of having two hard-drives installed at the same time? Many self-help books on computing advise the use of a second "back-up" drive. It'd be pretty dumb thing to do to have to reconnect the drive every time I wanted to perform a back-up? They're both on the same bus and both could be nuked at the same time. Use a USB external hard drive for back ups and keep your second drive safe by not having it connected to *anything*. Occasionally fire it up to update it. As your data will be on an external drive, no need to back that up to the second internal drive unless you have to use it. Alias Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. "Alias" wrote in message ... Tim Meddick wrote: The reasons for having two simultaneous copies of Windows on two separate hard-drives are painfully obvious (to me, anyway) - One is hard-drive failure or (more commonly) OS System (Windows) failure. I've never had a harddisk fail on me, yet, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen some time. I have two identical drives with everything regularly cloned from one disk to the other. If there's something wrong with Windows not starting on the first then I have a couple of options open to me. I could just boot from the second and attempt to fix the problem from there or clone the backup drive back onto the first. Either way, my data is safe. I trust that the drive you're not using is disconnected from the motherboard and power supply when you're not using it. Alias |
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"Tim Meddick" wrote:
Of course it's not. Can you not see the use of having two hard-drives installed at the same time? Many self-help books on computing advise the use of a second "back-up" drive. It'd be pretty dumb thing to do to have to reconnect the drive every time I wanted to perform a back-up? "Alias" has exposed himself to be a fool - again. One of my three spare internal drives is a clone of my Vista system drive and is updated nightly. Another has a fully-updated XP system on it. "Alias" wrote in message ... I trust that the drive you're not using is disconnected from the motherboard and power supply when you're not using it. Alias |
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if you do regular backups, what is the problem?
but if you really worry about drive failure, setup raid mirror drives, then you will have identical drives with the OS and settings. then get another 2 drives and set them up for your data. if a drive fails, you have an exact copy. when you get a lightening strike, it will all be gone anyway, so bakup also. "Tim Meddick" wrote in message ... The reasons for having two simultaneous copies of Windows on two separate hard-drives are painfully obvious (to me, anyway) - One is hard-drive failure or (more commonly) OS System (Windows) failure. I've never had a harddisk fail on me, yet, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen some time. I have two identical drives with everything regularly cloned from one disk to the other. If there's something wrong with Windows not starting on the first then I have a couple of options open to me. I could just boot from the second and attempt to fix the problem from there or clone the backup drive back onto the first. Either way, my data is safe. -- Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. . "Daave" wrote in message ... "rcfrgf" wrote in message news I have 2 harddrives. One has XP on it,and the other is empty. Could I put XP on the other drive too? Do you mean you would like XP to simultaneously be on *both* drives? If so, why? |
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I don't see why you call Alias a fool. It is much safer and logical to use
an external drive for backup. What Alias stated is true. "Mike Torello" wrote in message news "Tim Meddick" wrote: Of course it's not. Can you not see the use of having two hard-drives installed at the same time? Many self-help books on computing advise the use of a second "back-up" drive. It'd be pretty dumb thing to do to have to reconnect the drive every time I wanted to perform a back-up? "Alias" has exposed himself to be a fool - again. One of my three spare internal drives is a clone of my Vista system drive and is updated nightly. Another has a fully-updated XP system on it. "Alias" wrote in message ... I trust that the drive you're not using is disconnected from the motherboard and power supply when you're not using it. Alias |
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I don't see why you call Alias a fool. You're right... I meant TROLL. It is much safer and logical to use an external drive for backup. You're assuming that my cloned internal drive is my only backup, fool (which you are for assuming). It is there in case my main system drive completely fails/dies so I can be up and running again in seconds. I also have another internal drive with multiple ATI images for other backup/restore purposes. And those images are also stored on a USB drive that is kept disconnected except when backup images are copied to it. What Alias stated is true. No. "Mike Torello" wrote in message news "Tim Meddick" wrote: Of course it's not. Can you not see the use of having two hard-drives installed at the same time? Many self-help books on computing advise the use of a second "back-up" drive. It'd be pretty dumb thing to do to have to reconnect the drive every time I wanted to perform a back-up? "Alias" has exposed himself to be a fool - again. One of my three spare internal drives is a clone of my Vista system drive and is updated nightly. Another has a fully-updated XP system on it. "Alias" wrote in message ... I trust that the drive you're not using is disconnected from the motherboard and power supply when you're not using it. Alias |
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I don't see why it being connected to the same bus means that they will both
fail. The most common cause of hard-drive failure is what is called a "head-crash", that is, when the read/write head actually comes into physical contact with the magnetic media itself. This renders both unusable from then on. Other causes include imperfections in the magnetic media. I've not heard of the PCI BUS being particularly responsible for hard drive failures. As Mike Torello said, with a secondary internal drive, I can be back up and running in a couple of ticks! Frankly, I think you're talking out of your hat when you criticize people needlessly. In the end, none of what you say is writ in stone - it's all a matter of personal preference to what sort of back-up measures you have, as long as you have some - that is the main thing, isn't it? -- Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. "Alias" wrote in message ... Tim Meddick wrote: Of course it's not. Can you not see the use of having two hard-drives installed at the same time? Many self-help books on computing advise the use of a second "back-up" drive. It'd be pretty dumb thing to do to have to reconnect the drive every time I wanted to perform a back-up? They're both on the same bus and both could be nuked at the same time. Use a USB external hard drive for back ups and keep your second drive safe by not having it connected to *anything*. Occasionally fire it up to update it. As your data will be on an external drive, no need to back that up to the second internal drive unless you have to use it. Alias Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. "Alias" wrote in message ... Tim Meddick wrote: The reasons for having two simultaneous copies of Windows on two separate hard-drives are painfully obvious (to me, anyway) - One is hard-drive failure or (more commonly) OS System (Windows) failure. I've never had a harddisk fail on me, yet, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen some time. I have two identical drives with everything regularly cloned from one disk to the other. If there's something wrong with Windows not starting on the first then I have a couple of options open to me. I could just boot from the second and attempt to fix the problem from there or clone the backup drive back onto the first. Either way, my data is safe. I trust that the drive you're not using is disconnected from the motherboard and power supply when you're not using it. Alias |
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