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| Two drive with WinXP I made a clone of my main XP drive using Acronis True Image. The clone went all right but Acronis advised me not to have both WinXP drives in the computer when I boot up because one of the drives will become unbootable. Does anyone know why this is? Thanks Bearman      |
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| Re: Two drive with WinXP you can not run 2 instances of the same operating system. The boot menu will only show one choice to boot into in which case you wont have a choice. it will simply boot into your primary drive. which, you also can have only one of. "bearman" <noyb@home.com> wrote in message news:kp-dnVIINOuaou7dRVn-jA@comcast.com... > > I made a clone of my main XP drive using Acronis True Image. The clone went > all right but Acronis advised me not to have both WinXP drives in the > computer when I boot up because one of the drives will become unbootable. > Does anyone know why this is? > > Thanks > > Bearman > > > |
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| Re: Two drive with WinXP you can not run 2 instances of the same operating system. The boot menu will only show one choice to boot into in which case you wont have a choice. it will simply boot into your primary drive. which, you also can have only one of. "bearman" <noyb@home.com> wrote in message news:kp-dnVIINOuaou7dRVn-jA@comcast.com... > > I made a clone of my main XP drive using Acronis True Image. The clone went > all right but Acronis advised me not to have both WinXP drives in the > computer when I boot up because one of the drives will become unbootable. > Does anyone know why this is? > > Thanks > > Bearman > > > |
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