Can I dual Boot From Two Hard Drives?

chad414

chad414

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Okay, so I'm getting a new hard drive because i need more memory. I have a 80GB drive and I'm getting a 250GB drive... So i have everything on my current drive it has all my files(music games and updates) and OS(winxp). I dont want to loose anything on my hard drive. but that's not the problem though, I want to keep my current windows xp. anyways i have lots of different OS like Xubuntu, Windows XP and 7 witch i will most likely install on the new hard drive, And I really want to keep my computer the same, but with a bigger hard drive. So I'm wondering if i could install another os on my new drive and dual boot from both hard drives then i could just go back to windows xp when ever i want. Also, if there is a safe way to copy or move every thing on my old drive to new the new drive.

so please help me or just tell me what you would do :)

Also if this helps My Hard Drive type is SATA 8MB 7200RPM
sorry for bad English im only 13
 
You can always clone your existing drive to the new drive. Which will give you more space, not more memory.
 
There are several ways to accomplish what you want to do.

You can clone your current hard drive to the new one, and install another OS (or two) into additional partitions you create on the extra space.

You could retain the current drive, add the new one and install the extra OS(s) on the second drive, with the original being the bootable drive. Or make the new one the primary (though there would be a little work involved making a point to the OS on the original drive).

You could even make a bootable USB drive that points to the added OS(s), and when you boot the old drive you will get just the original OS.
 
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