Would the process below be a good idea if I modified it and put 2 IDENTICAL
OS's on separate HD's in case one of the hard drives crashes? Along those
lines, I just bought a Dell computer without a floppy drive. Am I in
trouble? I only hear talk about creating an ASR (if I am remembering the
acronym correctly) disk on floppy to restore the system. I can't think of
too many other reasons to have a floppy drive these days. I will have a SONY
USB2.0 External DVD/CD burner. I think I want to make a disk image and if
the computer gets out of whack, wipe the disk clean and reload the image. Is
there a good primer on how to set up XP on a computer and be smart about it
from the start? I was thinking of partitioning the 2nd HD (300GB) and
copying the image of the 1st HD (the one with all the programs and OS) there.
Sorry if I have gotten way off topic.

"Dixonian69" wrote:

> install xp onn first HDD. then install on seciond hard drive. window creates
> dual boot menu.
> pretty easy.
>
> "Uncle John" wrote:
>
> > For those interested in dual booting from different or twin identical OS I
> > have happened on the following neat way of doing it:
> >
> > 1 Two disks master and slave, about same size. In my case SATA 74 GB
> > Westinghouse Raptor
> >
> > 2 Windows XP Pro installed with all apps on Master=Disk 0
> > 3 In Windows use CasperXP to diskcopy Disk 1 to Disk 2 (Windows 1 = Bios 0)
> > 4 Reboot, set the bios with Slave=Disk 0 as first had disk boot priority,
> > set Boot from CD as the first general boot device
> > 5a Leave the Windows CD in the Optical Drive and reboot take care not to
> > touch a key while rebooting or the CD will be fired up, the PC will boot
> > into the master Disk
> > 5b Take the CD out and Reboot. The PC will boot into the slave disk
> > 6 The slave disk in my case for backup is updated nightly by Casper XP
> > scheduled copy (System Restore has to be disabled on the slave to be able to
> > diskcopy properly.
> >
> > The behaviour of being able to select which hard disk will may be specific
> > to my Gigabyte motherboard and Award bios, but the system will work, ;less
> > sweetly simply but switching the hard disk boot priority in the bios before
> > booting
> >
> > Ainsi dit. ansi soit!-
> > Uncle John
> >
> >
> >