You have 2 hard drives set up as master and slave you have xp pro corporate on the master and xp pro media center 2005 on the slave How do you switch back and forth between hard drives?

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Don't know your setup. 1 partition per drive? Not sure but I think modify the boot.ini file. Then on boot will have choice of operating system. Xp Pro is disk 0 partition 1, Xp media disk 1 partition 1

A typical boot.ini file looks like this:

[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Corporate" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Just modify this by adding in another entry under the Operating Systems heading, as so:

[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Corporate" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows xp pro media center 2005" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

If there’s more than one entry in the OS section the bootloader will display a menu, then after the timeout time (in this case 30) will boot the default entry (in this case XP Pro).

You could put your boot.ini's on a floppy then boot Xp Pro Corporate and copy and paste the line from Xp Pro media boot.ini in Corporate boot.ini just change the line for media to read, disk 1 partition 1.

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