The second drive was cloned, thus it has the same partition names as the 1st drive. So if the system wants to mount the 1st (normal primary) drive it would see duplicate C partitions, with some elements being identical depending on whatever the cloning program does. The partitions are not of equal size, if that matters. So, if the system sees 2 bootable 2 partitions, would that summon Dante's ghost? This is sounding like not a good idea, but removing / replacing the original drive many times is warned against in the tpad manual. - LS -------- You can do it but if you leave the first drive in there is all hell to pay, as it will be looking to mount the NTFS partition from drive C, not drive D. I think it was much easier to do back in the Win98 days. XP makes things sticky. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]> > > Can two bootable drives be installed at once? > I have a 2nd drive which is set to bootable and can be installed in the 2nd HDD bay. I would like to boot off the 2nd drive (in the expansion bay) via the F12 > boot option menu, while leaving the main drive undisturbed. I recall reading that booting a system (at least a notebook) while two bootable > internal drives are present. > i) is that true? > ii) what happens? > iii) is there workaround? I have a usb > > -- L _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
