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I have two sata hard disk drives one with xp home edition and the other one has vista ultimate on can you run two hard drives on one machine?
Yes, you can. If your computer has more sata ports you can use then to connect more hard drives.
Can I have two hard drives on the same computer if one has windows vista and one has windows 7?
Yeah. When you start the computer it'll probably ask which one you want to use. If it doesn't, it'll just start the other one.
How do you dual boot Windows XP and Vista with two hard drives?
Install both hard drives, decide which one is designed for xp and which for vista. Boot from xp cd and choose the hard disk you want to install to. After installation of xp finished insert the disk with vista. Run setup.exe, when it asks you about location for future system choose another drive. And follow instructions. Once installation has been completed you will have dual boot.
How do you make two hard drives into one large partition?
use norton partition magic
How do you install Vista Ultimate and Windows XP on a computer with two internal hard drives?
Install Win XP on the first hard drive, then install Vista from Xp and on question about "what kind of installation do you want to have?" Answer "separate" installation. When it asks you "which hard drive are you going to use?" Choose the second one. Vista will create a boot list automatically.
Can you install Windows XP on Windows Vista and switch between them?
Yes. There is a process called Dual Booting, but it requires two hard drives. Just search for "how to dual boot windows vista and windows XP?".
Can you del Windows 7 and reinsall Windows Vista or Windows XP?
Yes, you can delete windows 7 by formatting your drive, but all of your files will be gone. If you have two hard drives, you can either copy your data from one drive to the other or put xp/vista on the second one and use the windows 7 drive as a slave.
You have two sata hard disk drives one with xp home edition and the other one has vista ultimate on can you run two hard drives on one machine?
Just install windows xp home first on one of the hard drives and then install vista ultimate on another one. If you do in this order BIOS (basic input output system) create a boot list where you can choose which OS you want to use(use arrow keys and enter to select). If you install vista first and xp second you might have edit boot.ini file manually which is not that simple but not that hard (the problem that you cannot edit boot.ini manually in windows environment). You can also install both operating system on a single hard drive called partition where the hard drive is seen and know as 2 different drives. Note this can be bad, being that every thing is store on one drive. If a failure happen every thing goes.
How to have Windows 7 and vista in one computer?
You have two choices. First one is to use virtual machines (VMWare is one of the best ones). Or you can make your system dual boot. For that you need to have at least two partitions large enough to hold Vista or Windows 7. First install Vista in the first partition, second, install Windows 7 as a new installation in another partition.
What is the minimum number of partitions required in a system to setup a dual boot with Windows XP and Windows Vista?
Two. One for Windows XP and one for Windows Vista.
When do I use drive or drives in a sentence?
I drive to work every morning. She drives a car. My computer has one drive. / My computer has two drives. My brother drives me crazy. His thirst for knowledge drives him to study harder.
How many hard drives can connect to a single ide cable?
Only two drives can be supported on an IDE cable. One Master and one Slave.
