Question: 2 HD's with Windows on them

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LateraLex

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This may be a noob question, but remember that in the past with SATA drives I've run into issues with Windows recongnizing which drive is my MBR.

For the system in my sig, I have 3 harddrives. One of them is my OS with Windows Vista. I want to "downgrade" to Windows XP SP3 so I've bought a new drive. My plan is to disconnect all drives and install onto the new drive. Then, I will add back the other drives for storage.

My question is, when I reconnect the Vista drive (currently my C) will I run into problems? How will the computer know which is my MBR? Will this give me two OS options at startup? If all goes well I will be formatting the Vista disk but am trying to avoid some headaches if possible... thanks
 
well your going to want to format the vista drive anyways but you just set the which HDD to boot from the in the bios.... depending on the motherboard, if it doesnt have that specific of a boot menu then i am not sure....
 
Go into your BIOS and tell it which drive to boot from. It'll be in the boot sequence section and will be in addition to the setting to choose from floppy, cd-rom, hdd, etc.
 
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