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After installing two hard drive into a PC Is it possible to have two different OS on each drive...? And if so how do I install the two hard drive together into the machine? Meaning what wire go where.

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by for7676

It is possible, though you would have to have a boot loader (similar to the one used with WinNT) to decern which OS you would be booting to at startup. As her HDs, it doesn't matter if they are on the same controller or on separate ones...

by dmiles

Set your jumpers on the hard drives to designate on as master and one as slave by looking at the hard drive manual,load the drives and connect the IDE cable,Enter the Bios control panel and set the hard drive detection to auto.
You will need to useFAT file system to load the operating systems,FDISK will not recognize an NTFS partition or extended ntfs partition a dos partition has to be at the beginning of the drive.
Partition the drives and then format using FAT
Install the operating system on the first drive and complete the installation,open my computer and select the second had drive letter and perform the install on the second hard drive.
Now you want to Edit the Boot.ini from the second operating system then ad another line pointing to the second drive.Win9x and WIN NT will work on two seperate hard drives

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