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Old March 10th 06, 12:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default Dual booting

With your current setup you will almost certainly need an add-on third-party
boot manager to handle the problem. It is possible that you could connect
the WinMe hard drive as a master drive, the WinXP drive as a slave drive,
and if you have a real WindowsXP CD (not a restore or recovery CD) use the
Recovery Console to fix things - but it's also possible that you could lose
the contents of one or both drives.

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"Ed Mc" wrote in message
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I have my ME os on one hard drive and another drive has XP installed.
Currently, I have to unplug one when I want to use the other. What must I
do to plug in both hard drives and have a dual boot system. I have
Partition Magic. Must I reinstall XP, or, can I just plug it in and use
Partition M. to set it up? My research, on the Net, has throughly confused
me. Hoping to get some clear info. here. Thanks for any help.