Installing 2nd hard drive

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frankiee

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I use 20 gig with xp on it
I have a 20 gig extra one with xp it
I put in the extra hard drive with jumper set to slave with my old one as master and was expecting it to work but it does not.
I wish to have 2 hard drives. One for wife and I and 1 for the kids.

How can I do this? Thank you.
 
al your connections and wires are in place? (power cables, master is on the end of the cable,) and also is your bios set to boot from the master drive?
 
I wish to have kind of a duel boot system

I did a restart and now it boots into my old hard drive. That is good.
I see it put the slave hard drive that I added into :"D"

That is good but not quite what I wanted.
I wish my original hard drive to be completely separate from the other hard drive. Like a dual boot. Like having 2 separate computers. One for us adults and the other for the kids. I wish to have to reboot when switching users like I do at work.
Thank you
 
OK
I read something off the net saying to have both harddrives on master
I have one on master and the other on slave right now.
I am going to change the one I added to be a master in a bit.
I will see if that works
 
Ok
That did not work
I am nervous to edit my boot ini file right now.
Any sites on the subject that are good
I looked around and I find them conflicting.
 
Well an easier way of doing it is to just reinstalled XP on one of the drives with both of them plugged in. And you NEED to have one set to master and the other to slave. :)
 
Or what you can do is set up your kids with a different account than you and your wife. Set your administrator password so that you and your wife may log on, and the other account's password for your children. It won't use the two different HDD as separate units, but I believe it will accomplish the same goal... The accounts are accessible under Control Panel -> User Accounts.
 
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