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Answer» Can a person have SATA hard drives and IDE hard drives operating at the same time on the same motherboard?Yes. Can a person have SATA hard drives and IDE hard drives operating at the same time on the same motherboard?I have both in one of mine.I already have Vista and Windows 7 on SATA drives dual booting. I would like to add Windows XP as a IDE drive. Will I be able to have all 3 operating systems (drives) option to select like I have for VISTA and WIN 7 on boot up?What do you use for a boot manager? I USED to have a triple boot on my old P3.I'm not sure what you mean by a boot manager. I have a HP Pavilion a1640n I get a boot option by pressing the ESC key at boot up to allow me to select 1 of 2 drives (Both SATA drives with Vista and Windows 7). I'm wondering if I add an IDE drive with XP if I can get the same option, but with all 3 drives(operating systems) as options.Yes. BTW this is the cleanest and most efficient method of dual-booting as the OS's do not install to each other. Simply remove both SATA connectors...jumper the IDE as master and install XP to it... Once you have tested it and everything runs you can re-connect the SATA drives.Good plan, PATIO. I am not familiar with the ESC-key option. Is that Vista or 7? No it's outside of Windows...it's whatever key gets you into the BIOS on your machine...then you select which ever HDD you want to boot to. The selection remains that way each time you boot until it is changed again... P.S. Yours probably won't WORK this way if you installed a ver. of Windows with another installed. To use this method: A) Each OS needs it's own drive B) Any other drives/OS's need to be unhooked when adding a new one.I forgot about the ESC-key as the BIOS option on an HP. On my backup P3, I have it configured exactly the way you say. WinXP on 1 drive, Win98 on another drive. I just change the boot order. Win98 can't see XP-drive because it's NTFS, WinXP-drive sees both drives.That'll work... I once put 6 OS's on a machine cause someone told me it couldn't be done... |
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