First post, by EdmondDantes
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So I was thinking of doing a dual-boot setup, but well I wonder stuff.
The setup I had planned was Win98SE + WinXP.
My initial thought was to create three partitions: One for XP, one for 98, and one general data partition. The WinXP would be formatted in NTFS but the others might be FAT32 (I'm waffling on this for the data partition since I may want to put DVDs on it).
Now.... I'm imagining that if I were to boot Win98SE, it would only see itself and label itself the C:\ Drive. But what would XP do? I ask because I like to install programs to C:\ and I don't want Win98 stuff installing to XP's drive or vice-versa.
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But then I have another thought:
Instead of installing dual-boot partitions, instead just have three hard drives--the "General Data" stays in the comp all the time, but the OS drives get physically swapped out depending on which OS I want.
I could swear I've heard of a device like this which exists for precisely this reason (IE something that allows you to just push a button and wham the hard drive slides out) but I don't know what it's called. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
So, which do you think would be more practical? Should I look for one of these devices or am I making a simple process more complicated than it needs to be?
Thanks in advance.