Adding a operating system to second hard disc

[learner1]

How is everybody,

I have windows xp installed on my hard disc.
i have a second hard disc as slave.

I wander is it possible to load the same copy of xp onto the second hard disc.
giving you a choice by resetting the boot sector.

i want to do this as the master drive has crashed twice on me . i think it is on the way out.

any advise please.

thanks in advance.


learner1

 

[raybay]

It can be done under dual boot technology, as long as it is a separate product ID, because Windows considers it a separate (duplicate) install that still must be verified.
What you describe is unusual. I would find out the reason for the crashes. How do you know it is the hard drive crashing, and not the system crashing because of a fault elsewhere?
It is less costly to just replace the hard drive. The prices have fallen so that a 40 GB is $38, 60 Gb is $63, and 500 GB Seagate was $99 at Tiger Direct yesterday.

 

[learner1]

thanks to Raybay

Thks to Raybay for your quick reply


i was considering replacing the hard disc. but it only crashed once.
total crash . black screen.
when on the restart it advised " ntldr IS MISSING". went into the cmoss and found it did not recognise the master hard disc.

shut it down and restarted it later.
bingo everything fine.
i was thinking of loading the OP onto the second hard drive and in the event of a crash on the master disc i could change the boot sequence and use the slave hard disc.
but when i laod up the OP disc it tells me that the version i have is newer then the one on the disc and will not let me get past this without upstting the original install. what do you think?

thanks again

learner1

 

[learner1]

sorry Raybay.
you already gave me the answer-separate product id.

thanks again
learner1