dual boot - 2 hds

[dennix91]

hi, i've found another hd in an old pc, and i've installed it on mine.

into it there's a windows xp O.S.....now i'd like to install a dual boot software that can allow me to decide which HD choose.

and...there's another problem: my pc doesn't work if both them are connected, it works only when one of them are disconnected...

can someone help me please?

 

[repitah]

More information would be nice , like what the other OS is, what type of HDD (connectors)

Assuming the drives are IDE (wide ribbon cable 40pin connector), check/set slave and master.

What is the other operating system? If you have Vista or 7, then get a BCD editor to help add XP as the other OS. Make sure that the drive that has Vista/7 is the first boot HDD in the BIOS.

 

[Pada]

My guess is that you have 2 IDE hard drives connected to the same cable, and both are set on Master (with a jumper), instead of Master & Slave.

You can try Grub Bootloader, or otherwise simply disable one of the drives in your BIOS.
I'm currently doing a dual boot setup at my office between Ubuntu 10.04 x64 (on 30GB SSD) and Windows XP x86 (on 500GB SATA HDD), by switching between 2 BIOS profiles (one with AHCI enabled - for Ubuntu, and one with AHCI disabled and my SSD drive disabled - for WinXP).

 

[dennix91]

More information would be nice , like what the other OS is, what type of HDD (connectors)

Assuming the drives are IDE (wide ribbon cable 40pin connector), check/set slave and master.

What is the other operating system? If you have Vista or 7, then get a BCD editor to help add XP as the other OS. Make sure that the drive that has Vista/7 is the first boot HDD in the BIOS.

ok...i've got XP and Ubuntu 10.04 on one...and i've just got on it the GNU GRUB to switch between them...but it doesn't acknowledge the other HD which has another XP...

i want to keep the one wich has only XP and use the other to install different distros of linux

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

Try easyBCD for the bootloader editing.

 

[Pada]

Currently you should already be using Grub2 bootloader with your copy of Ubuntu.
Read the following Wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

I think all you need to run under Ubuntu will be 'sudo update-grub', but your 2nd (WinXP) HDD must be working already!

 

[homeboy]

what i usually do is when i don`t have a boot manager i press F11 or F12 depends what your pc use to boot with. i know there is a easier way but i don`t know how to set it up.