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To: fastcats who wrote (71884)8/25/2010 12:47:35 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) of 110655
 
[edited] John, if you want to boot from the XP drive it should be installed inside the new PC. Some claim there is a way to boot from an external HD, but MSFT says no.

I'm not sure how up-to-date my info is.

PS: I have installed a 2nd HD recently and it makes backups a snap. I also have a bootable partition on the 2nd HD - in case the one on the C drive fails

PPS: I would not only install the 2nd HD but also clone the Win7 OS to it. I've done this on my XP computer using XXclone and it works.
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