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nrshapiro

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Multiple Boot Disks...
« on: October 12, 2009, 10:55:33 AM »
I cloned my Vista drive to another hard disk in my computer as a bootable backup to cover myself when I upgrade to Windows 7 shortly.

However, it's been a while since I messed with multiple boots, so I can't remember if there's a problem having two identical disks in the system, and both being boot disks.  (Actually, the new one on the SATA secondary connection.)

There doesn't seem to be a problem after cloning and rebooting to my original drive C, but I haven't switched and tried to boot the new disk yet.   

I'm thinking it's not a problem, but would like to know the general guidelines, rather than running into a new problem firsthand.   :)



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Re: Multiple Boot Disks...
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 12:03:17 PM »
More info on what these drives are...SATA/IDE and how you installed the OS's.
Generally you can have up to 4 bootable HDD's without any conflict...in some cases more...
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