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    Dual booting with two hdd's

    I know normally you dual boot with a hdd partioned but i've got a spare one and i was going to use it for the windows 7 rc tommorow.
    But i'm worried that when i'll dual boot it won't yet me chose which os at the start and will do it in order of the bios.
    Is there a way round this.

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    Re: Dual booting with two hdd's

    Where will the RC version be available from then?

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    Re: Dual booting with two hdd's

    http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

    I do the same thing with 7 Beta, however there is a bug or something cos it doesnt use the new Win7 bootup screen.

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    Re: Dual booting with two hdd's

    So i should install it on the second hdd and add that hdd to the vista bootloader using easybcd.

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    Re: Dual booting with two hdd's

    yep

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    Re: Dual booting with two hdd's

    Is there an option to install the RC without it affecting the boot loader then? I'd rather just add it to grub without windows mucking about with the loader.

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    Re: Dual booting with two hdd's

    Thanks.
    Just installed it and it added it automaticly to the bootloader on my main hdd. Confused me as i was trying to boot from my second one (the one with Win 7).
    Typing this on my new install of Win 7

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    Re: Dual booting with two hdd's

    It automatically updated the bootloader on mine too, my main os still in the boot menu. But I would add that I had only edited the BCD file after removing the beta, and not replaced the original WinXP bootloader, so mileage may vary.

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