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| | Hey Gang, I have a few questions about dual booting my System with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows XP Home. I've read the information here: http://www.tweakvista.com/article39206.aspx and I understand how to get both operating systems working but I want to do things a little differently. I use Vista mostly. I only use XP to run some video editing software I need for work, so... I want to set up XP on an external drive that I connect through an external SATA port. What I want to know is will the boot menu appear if the external drive is not connected? I hope it does NOT because I hate going through that menu every time I have to reboot. I'd like to only see the boot menu if the external drive is connected and running. Any ideas? As well, If I'm stuck with the boot menu (regardless of whether or not the external XP drive is connected) and I decide that I don't need XP any more, how do I remove the boot menu so it boots into Vista automatically. Thanks to everyone in advance for your replies!!! Chris
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| I want to set up XP on an external drive that I connect through an external SATA port.
Don't have a solution for it but generally Windows will not install on a removable drive.
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| You're not really "booting" from an external drive, instead, what you'd be doing is booting from the MBR on your "first" internal drive and then loading the OS from a selection menu, one entry of which would point to an external drive.
So, it sounds like what you want is the OS selection menu to be dynamically created -- depend on what OS's (something?) finds resident on your box when you boot it.
Sorry, but the OS menu is a static file.
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