Dual Boot Win2k Pro

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Brian Smith

I have two drives installed one of which ( HDD0 - 20gb ) contains the OS -
Win2k, the other drive ( 80gb ) is used as a backup only and does not
contain an OS of any description ......... I assume that the second 80gb
drive is HDD1.

I would like to install an OS on the 80gb drive and use the bios settings to
select the boot sequence for each drive in the event of a disc failure -
question is, how best to achieve this.

1 : Do I carry out a clean install of Win2k on the 80gb drive, and then
install the supporting software - which of course is very time consuming.

2 : I also have the utility Norton Ghost - can this be used to clone / copy
the entire drive including the OS to the 80gb drive.

3 : How do I confirm that the 80gb drive is in fact HDD1.

Any constructive help is appreciated !

Regards,

Brian
 
I have two drives installed one of which ( HDD0 - 20gb ) contains the OS -
Win2k, the other drive ( 80gb ) is used as a backup only and does not
contain an OS of any description ......... I assume that the second 80gb
drive is HDD1.

I would like to install an OS on the 80gb drive and use the bios settings to
select the boot sequence for each drive in the event of a disc failure -
question is, how best to achieve this.

1 : Do I carry out a clean install of Win2k on the 80gb drive, and then
install the supporting software - which of course is very time consuming.

2 : I also have the utility Norton Ghost - can this be used to clone / copy
the entire drive including the OS to the 80gb drive.

3 : How do I confirm that the 80gb drive is in fact HDD1.

Any constructive help is appreciated !

Regards,

Brian
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I assume Ghost is much like PQ's DriveImage application.

No need to install a separate OS. Just image your 20Gig to the 80.
I'm sure that Ghost has some kind of recovery environment (bootable
CDRrom/boot disc) that will allow you to retsore your drive0
partitions if you OS fails.

I do this before installing new software/hardware and every few anyway
just as a system/file backup.

Start Menu . . Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk
Management will list your drive and partition info.

lee
 
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