Yes that is the way I do it.

Some posters have missed the fact the dual boot installed but windows
depends on writing a special boot.in to ONE disk. if that disk fails the
second boot may also fail. Moreover live backup from disk 1 to disk 2 cannot
be done because both the disks will be in service

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Uncle John
"kkf718" <kkf718@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >