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Posted by sofasurfer on October 8, 2006, 4:31 am
  I don't have a lot of luck with a dual boot system. I do a lot of
downloading and getting viruses and a lot of reinstalls and other
playing around. Dual booting just don't work for me.

I want 2 hard drives. Each has its own OS. I want to flick a switch to
switch from one drive to the other. Currently I pull the drive bay out
and remove the IDE cable from one drive and plug it in to the other.
Its just a matter of time till I screw up the pins or something. This
is why I want a switch. What are my options...affordable ones?


Posted by Hawkeye on October 8, 2006, 5:04 am
 http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=25

SATA trays also sold.  Check newegg for them

I use the IDE trays with zero problems



Posted by RBM on October 8, 2006, 8:14 am
  How do you control which drive boots? I have a drive bay with a key switch,
just used for testing drives.


Posted by Hawkeye on October 8, 2006, 10:30 am
 You dont. This is intended to solve this problem he stated he wated to
avoid.

 Currently I pull the drive bay out
and remove the IDE cable from one drive and plug it in to the other.
Its just a matter of time till I screw up the pins or something.


Posted by Andrew Smallshaw on October 8, 2006, 4:18 pm
 
In the past I've used similar removable trays for this: simply buy
two trays but only put one drawer in the machine - obviously it
will boot from whichever disk is in the machine at the time.  Or
have I misunderstood something?

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Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org

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