asdfguy
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I've got a Sata II as my Master HDD and an IDE installed on my primary IDE as a slave (slaved on both jumper and cable). This seems to be the only way my bios will recognize that the IDE HDD is there. I'd like to install linux on the IDE HDD and keep XP on the Sata II drive so that I can choose at startup which HDD drive boot from. Can I run an OS from a slaved IDE HDD? I've done it before by partitioning one IDE HDD, but I don't know how it will react with a Sata and a slaved IDE primary and I don't want to format my IDE HDD and loose everything I have on it only to find out that it won't work. Thanks