--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Donald Cooley <dfcooley@...> wrote:
>
> I know this is a Linux forum but I also know many of us multi-boot.
> I need some help with installing and booting xp from a second hard
> drive. I know there is a lot of information on Google, but I am getting a migraine wading through it and restarting my machine with the xp installation disc. I know xp is being phased out but I need it for some games.
>
> I have slackware and openbsd on /dev/sda. No problems there. I bought a western digital caviar 680G
> <http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=TSD-640AAKS%20TD>
> This is an oem drive. I used cfdisk to give it a ntfs of 100g and then formatted it with gparted. The problem I'm having is when I go to
> install Windows I get to the screen about using a partition and I get an error saying something like I don't have a valid xp partition. I've tried deleting and letting windows create a partition but it refuses. I was hoping to get this finished this weekend. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Donald Cooley
>
http://www.cooldrives.com/mrsatrmorawi.html
http://www.cooldrives.com/4posaiisw3ba.html
The above links might solve some problems, no dual-boot required, swap out drives or select another one and boot. Because I think WinXP expects to be master OS. You'd have to hide the one hard drive from the other otherwise by way of another boot manager. This is why dual-boot usually starts from DOS or Windows.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Booting_Windows_on_second_HD_with_Grub
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/installation/83683-install-windows-second-hard-drive-while-linux-first-hard-drive.html
I hope others can update those for you
Joan in Reno
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