How do I run Windows 7 Beta and Windows XP on the same computer but different hard drives? -

I have Windows 7 Beta on one hard drive and want XP on another hard drive, I installed XP on the other drive and it only booted XP up and when I tried to boot 7 up it said a file had to be re-installed, so i repaired it and 7 works again, but I can t use them both without one not working/booting up

I do what you do, all u have to do is change the pin on the hard drive so the comp can rezognize which harddrive is the master and which is the secondary. take a look on your hard drive, it shows u where to put the pin for master or secondary

you need to setup a dual boot system. Both op systems have to be on on same drive but in different partitions. So if you have only 1 partition then you must create a second for the windows 7. Or if you can`t do that then you can change the boot order in bios to boot from which drive you want to start, but you will have to do this each time you boot if you want to change op system. Your additional info means you must partition the sata drive a i said earlier. The run install for windows 7 and select 2nd partition as install drive.

Here is a great tutorial for dual booting as Johnny mentioned. I hope it helps. http://lifehacker.com/5126781/how-to-dua... Jeff Windows Outreach Team

Just go into the CMOS during boot and tell the BIOS which drive to boot from. This assumes you did a bootable install to each drive